{"id":738997,"date":"2022-10-26T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=738997"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:00:06","slug":"considering-covid-a-hoax-is-gateway-to-belief-in-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=738997","title":{"rendered":"Considering COVID a hoax is &#039;gateway&#039; to belief in conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax\u2014that its severity was exaggerated or that the virus was deliberately released for sinister reasons\u2014functions as a &#8220;gateway&#8221; to believing in conspiracy theories generally, new research has found.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-covid-hoax-gateway-belief-conspiracy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Considering COVID a hoax is &#8216;gateway&#8217; to belief in conspiracy theories<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax\u2014that its severity was exaggerated or that the virus was deliberately released for sinister reasons\u2014functions as a &#8220;gateway&#8221; to believing in conspiracy theories&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}