Today is Saturday, October 31st.

And today on this Halloween, we are talking about conspiracy theories.

We cover everything from the rules of both the pandemic and politics,

to who tends to be most vulnerable to these theories and why.

We also discuss whether or not these conspiracy theories are actually a threat to our society.

Our guest expert today is Shana Boes.

She's a research psychologist at Emory University who led the team studying the most comprehensive

analysis to date of people who are prone to conspiracy beliefs.

So here is our conversation.

Welcome, welcome! To The Newsworthy special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different

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days news in just 10 minutes. It's fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy

it's time for today's special edition Saturday. You ready?

Let's do this.

Shauna, thank you so much for coming on the newsworthy.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

So there have been a lot of conspiracy theories that we've heard about that excited to be here. So there have been a lot of conspiracy theories

that we've heard about that seem to be gaining traction this year,

such as QAnon, Wayfair Gate,

some debunked theories about COVID-19, et cetera.

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