When it comes to domestic violence, cases involving catastrophic physical violence are the ones that most often make it into the media. But our new research shows there are often signs of trouble long before such tragic outcomes – before…[Continue Reading...]
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church wants planning permission to open the shop at its Reading Gospel Hall on Church Lane. The sect – which discourages social contact between members and non-members – says the move will bring its shop and…[Continue Reading...]
Recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their stories of friends and family members who were radicalized by QAnon, Trumpism, and the far right. Here's what they had to say."Like many, I have that one uncle. He strongly believes…[Continue Reading...]
British teenager Alex Batty has spoken to his grandmother for the first time since being abducted by his mother and grandfather in 2017. The now 17, who went missing in 2017 after going on a family holiday to Spain, was…[Continue Reading...]
At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an aberrational, fringe phenomenon. But what if is isn't? A 2014 study by Eric Oliver and Thomas Wood…[Continue Reading...]
The upcoming Amazon Prime Video docuseries, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, explores how the Duggar family's concerning ties to a radical religious organization negatively influenced them The producers of the upcoming docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets are…[Continue Reading...]
The experience I am going to talk about happened about a year ago. Up until that point, the closest I’d come to a cult was on a screen or in my psychology notes, but I’d never been inside one. When…[Continue Reading...]
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