{"id":751,"date":"2024-11-06T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2024-11-06T20:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:43:49","slug":"how-three-big-conspiracy-theories-took-root-in-canada-daniel-r-meister-daniel-panneton-the-walrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/how-three-big-conspiracy-theories-took-root-in-canada-daniel-r-meister-daniel-panneton-the-walrus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow Three Big Conspiracy Theories Took Root in Canada\u201d &#8211; Daniel R. Meister, Daniel Panneton (The Walrus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, ideas once considered beyond the pale have made inroads into legitimate institutions and among Canadians. We\u2019ve seen credentialled medical professionals play footsie with anti-vaccine activists wielding sciencey vocabularies, accomplished lawyers push dubious and convenient interpretations of the law, elected officials entertain baseless claims about governmental conspiracy, Convoyites swear themselves in as so-called peace officers with imagined arresting powers, and livestreamers LARP as tenacious, evidence-based journalists\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/conspiracy-theories-canada\/\">https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/conspiracy-theories-canada\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn recent years, ideas once considered beyond the pale have made inroads into legitimate institutions and among Canadians. We\u2019ve seen credentialled medical professionals play footsie with anti-vaccine activists wielding sciencey vocabularies, accomplished lawyers push dubious and convenient interpretations of the law, elected officials entertain baseless claims about governmental conspiracy, Convoyites swear themselves in as so-called&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}