Anthony Fauci was responsible for its creation. In recent years, we have seen people afraid to get vaccinated because they think the government has installed trackers in them and others who say Covid-19 isn’t real or that Dr. Rigorous journalism is decried as fake news.”
“Rigorous science and scientists are castigated and vilified. We’re in an era of “the industrialization of conspiracy theories,” “X-Files” creator Chris Carter wrote in The New York Times last year. We watched it in part because we did wonder about things like Bigfoot and flying saucers, but also because it was all just so completely bonkers.Īt some point between then and today, though, the Fox Mulders of the world seem to have taken over. agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate unexplained phenomena and insane conspiracy theories about alien abduction, the end of the world and the U.S.
When I was in my 20s, the big show was “The X-Files.” Every Sunday night, 10 to 20 million Americans tuned in to see F.B.I.