The Sweigart Report: #AstroNots and JonBenet “Truthers”

Never trust a man named Avocado | Photo: Jennifer, CC BY 2.0
Never trust a man named Avocado | Photo: Jennifer, CC BY 2.0

I’m basically just going to keep calling the Monday reports on crazy pseudoscience and insane conspiracy theories “The Sweigart Report” until a certain Sweigart agrees to write posts for us. Read on!

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We have two stories to report from the frontlines of the War on Crazy this week. First up, we have people who think the Challenger disaster was a hoax and that the astronauts who died have had their names changed and are living on elsewhere, see below:

From the insane mind of David Avocado Wolfe, via the facebook feed of one Marc Draco
From the insane mind of David Avocado Wolfe, via the facebook feed of one Marc Draco

Yeah, that’s not totally offensive or anything.

And second we’ve got tionfoil hat fashion models who think that JonBenet Ramsay’s death was faked and that she’s living on as… uh… Katy Perry. I… I really don’t know. But there you go.

Happy Monday, everyone.

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Richard Ford Burley is a human, writer, and doctoral candidate at Boston College, as well as an editor at Ledger, the first academic journal devoted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he writes about science, skepticism, feminism, and futurism here at This Week In Tomorrow.