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Podcast: Skeptics in the Pub Online Podcast
Episode: Skepticamp 2024 - Talk 4 - How Stray Dogs Became a Threat to National Security - Serdar Basegmez
Description: This audio is a part of the Skepticamp 2024 event, that happened on October 18th 2024 in Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester and was livestreamed at https://www.twitch.tv/sitp
About the talk:
The rise in the number of stray dogs has sparked fierce reactions from conspiracy influencers. Between violent interventions like shooting strays and deporting volunteers who feed these “scary monsters,” some escalated the issue to the point of declaring it a national security threat. But why has such an everyday issue been dragged to its most radical form?
This talk explores how conspiracy networks use everyday issues and...