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The Foreign Desk

Are we living in a golden age of conspiracy theories?

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5 August 2023

Episode 501

38 minutes


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Last week the US Congress held a bizarre hearing on UFOs, which included explosive testimony about alien spacecraft defying laws of physics. What did we learn from America’s UFO hearing? Why do people latch onto conspiracy theories? And what does this mean for democracies? Andrew Mueller speaks to Marina Koren, Tom Nichols, Will Sommer and Richard Evans.

5 August 2023

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