Making sense of conspiracy theorists
Making sense of conspiracy theorists It is 20 years since Jon Ronson wrote ‘Them,’ his eye-popping investigation into conspiracy theorists. Now, in a world awash with tales of pedophile elites and puppet masters, is he any closer to understanding it all? By Jon Ronson / The Guardian In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver cafe with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town — David Icke. He was there to lecture about how the ruling elite are actually child-sacrificing, blood-drinking pedophile lizards in...