LONG BEFORE ‘RUST’
Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.
Robert P. Crease is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, where he has taught for more than three decades. He is the author of, among other books, The Great Equations, The Prism and the Pendulum, and The Leak, from which this article is adapted. He has written for publications including The Atlantic, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.