Defining Conspiracism

Have you ever found yourself wondering why some people think the world is flat, or that the Royal Family are secretly a race of Lizard people controlling the world? 

Have you ever wondered why so many people seem to think the deadly pandemic we are living through is a hoax? 

Well, if you have, this podcast series is here to make sense of all of the madness. 

Joining us on this episode are the BBC’s specialist reporter for disinformation and social media, Marianna Spring, the Community Security Trust’s director of policy Dave Rich, writer and actor Marlon Solomon and astrophysicist and Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Catherine Heymans.

Episode one dives into the murky world of anti-vaxxers and Qanon, featuring Jemma Levene, deputy director of the anti-fascist advocacy group Hope Not Hate, Lord Robert Winston, Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London, the writer and comedian David Baddiel and writer, journalist and presenter of the Finding Q podcast, Nicky Woolf. Produced by Justin Cohen 

A limited podcast series for Jewish News hosted by broadcaster Oz Katerji explores the causes and impacts of some of the biggest conspiracy theories dominating the information ecosystem in the 21st Century, featuring a new panel of distinguished experts in each episode.