There is no doubt that controversial ‘gain of function’ research into viruses goes on in various labs around the world. It is the subject of endless videos on unrestricted sites and has spawned a whole sub-class of conspiracies. The idea of vaccines as a bioweapon is one of the top trending conspiracies in 2022 riding off the Covid pandemic. There are probably more, but let us consider which, if any, hold a grain of truth. Covid vaccines, in one way or another, alter human DNA.Microchips in vaccines to track society.There is a shadowy plot to solve over-population.A cabal of powerful people want to reset the world.There are plenty of conspiracy theories running around – some more believable than others.Ī few crowd-pleasing favourites that will almost certainly get you dragged off by the fact-checking police include: They have even created a new label for it: Fake News. Social media works very hard to censor the ‘drums’ and limit the rapid exchange of information, rumour, and what we now call ‘conspiracy theories’. There are often elements of fact, truth, and reality scattered noisily between these whispers. Word of mouth is not necessarily reliable, but that doesn’t mean it is completely wrong either. Like bees in a hive, humans know things because other humans know something… That is why ‘word spreads’ so easily. We communicate with each other at unseen and generally unacknowledged levels. Rumours also tap into that great human survival mechanism, intuition.
Social media is simply the modern version that has replaced pub gossip and chatting over the neighbour’s fence.
They are stories that generally come to life because someone who ‘knows something’ says something to someone else – and on and on it goes. There have always been rumours in the news cycle. This is where the art of ‘cherry-picking’ becomes useful, because in rumours or conspiracy theories the ‘cherries’ are the fruit you must find. There is a lot of talk about fake news and conspiracy theories which, in the past, we would have called ‘rumours’.
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