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You can't really do an effective parody of conspiracism because it gets immediately co-opted into the paranoid style and the conspiracist frame of mind.

There is nothing that cannot be believed. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Matthew Galt'm Jason Field. We're back with another episode. and I'm

Matthew Galt and I'm Jason Field. We're back with another episode of the

war college annex these are those bonus episodes that go off the beaten path and

again we're talking about QAnon the popular internet-driven conspiracy theory that supposes

President Trump is at war with an ancient and powerful pedophile cult.

When QAnon believers began showing up a Trump rally, the media took notice in In early August, Buzzfeed published a report supposing that Q was an elaborate left-wing

prank on believers.

The evidence?

A book published in Italy in the 1990s titled Q. With us today's Wuming One one of the authors of that book.

He's here to help us disentangle Q it on from the novel, talk about the importance of conspiracy

theories to culture, and what makes a good cultural

prank and how you can use pranks to debunk conspiracy theories.

Wu Ming 1, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

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