COVID-19 The Conspiracy Theories
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COVID-19 The Conspiracy Theories

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

COVID-19 The Conspiracy Theories

About this book

Investigative journalist David Gardner turns his uncompromising gaze on the many conspiracy theories connected with the COVID pandemic. With first-hand reporting and detailed investigations into the people who originated these COVID theories - some of them plausible, some driven by an agenda, and some plainly mad - he answers the questions that everyone has been asking for nearly two years since the pandemic began, and left us doubting our leaders as never before.
When COVID-19 struck early in 2020, first in China and inexorably through the rest of the world, it quickly became the subject of the most virulent outbreak of conspiracy theories we have ever seen. The pandemic quickly became an infodemic.
The President of the United States championed bleach as a cure, the Chinese government blamed the Americans, and the American government blamed the Chinese - a Cold War over a cold virus. David Icke said that COVID does not exist. People blamed 5G phone networks, genetically modified crops, Bill Gates, Corona beer, aliens, bats and pangolins...
Yet these theorists are not all the obsessive cultists and paranoid mavericks with whom the conspiracy-theory label is often associated. They are your parents, your next-door neighbour, your boss at work. The question marks over the origins of COVID-19, the dangers of the virus.
The world has been changed for ever by the events of the past two years. It is crucial that history offers an accurate account of what happened. This book will play a key role in revealing what - and what not - to believe.

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Information

Publisher
John Blake
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781789466232
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: To the Batcave
  9. Chapter 2: Patient Zero
  10. Chapter 3: The Bat Woman
  11. Chapter 4: . . . and Robin
  12. Chapter 5: The Persecuted Pangolin
  13. Chapter 6: Back to the Batlab
  14. Chapter 7: The Birmingham Lab Leak
  15. Chapter 8: The Colds War
  16. Chapter 9: The ‘Patient Zero’ Who Never Got Covid
  17. Chapter 10: Riddle Me This, When is a Conspiracy Theory Not a Conspiracy Theory?
  18. Chapter 11: Can You Hear Me Now?
  19. Chapter 12: Donald Trump, King of the Conspiracy Theorists
  20. Chapter 13: The Qanon Shaman and a Cult that Looks Like You
  21. Chapter 14: Drastic Action Required
  22. Chapter 15: Bill Gates & Phish and Chips
  23. Chapter 16: The Great Reset
  24. Chapter 17: A Family Torn Apart by Covid Conspiracy Theories
  25. Chapter 18: Octopus Vaccines and Babies with Black Eyes
  26. Chapter 19: Pandemic, What Pandemic?
  27. Chapter 20: Champagne for Breakfast and Going Against the Grain
  28. Chapter 21: Rfk & The Disinformation Dozen
  29. Chapter 22: Pulling Back From the Edge
  30. Chapter 23: Russia and Patient 060606
  31. Chapter 24: A Female Rapper and a Difficult Case of Swollen Balls
  32. Chapter 25: The Ivy League ‘Conspiracy Theory’
  33. Chapter 26: The Silver Bullet Horse Dewormer
  34. Chapter 27: Saving the World and Cutting Down on Oat Cappuccinos
  35. Sources
  36. Acknowledgements
  37. About the Author