Suzanne Harrington: The rise of conspiracy theories online has made actual evidence so last century

PizzaGate, microchipping and microwaving iPhones, reading conspiracy theories online is like being trapped inside someone’s queasy cheese dream

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.