Suzanne Harrington: The rise of conspiracy theories online has made actual evidence so last century
QAnon began with an anonymous post that spawned an elaborate conspiracy theory. File image.
I love learning a new word, particularly when it’s on the bleeding edge of the zeitgeist. Hello then to ipsedixitism, which my spellcheck has underlined with a red squiggle, because it thinks it’s a typo. It’s not.
It means ‘unfounded, false or dogmatic assertion’ based on zero evidence. Maybe it’s Latin for conspiracy theory. I have no proof of that, but it sounds good, and evidence is so last century.
