Dom Joly enters the strange land of conspiracies as a wide-eyed tourist, eager to investigate the origins of some of the most pervasive conspiracy theories and meet the people who believe them.
Conspiracy theories appear to be on the rise. A survey by New Science magazine found that the percentage of people believing in one or more conspiracies had risen from 15% twenty years ago to 35% percent last year. They are starting to become so much more than the obsession of fringe individuals. They are now shaping politics, media, the way we view life itself. Under the unprecedented global uncertainty of the pandemic, these theories have thrived as people seek to explain the often unexplainable. In The Conspiracy Tourist I want to find out where these ideas come from, learn about the people who create and believe them, and consider what harm they might do to our increasingly uncertain future.
