Movies that promote conspiracy theories!
Tony McMahon looks at Hollywood movies that promote conspiracy theories from the moon landings to the assassination of JFK
2019
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A warning to anti-vaxxers from history
A lesson from history for anti-vaxxers that when people stopped vaccinating in 19th century Ceylon – smallpox returned even worse than before as Tony McMahon reports
Filming for Strange Evidence – Discovery Science channel
Last Friday, I was filming for the next series of Strange Evidence which will be broadcast on Discovery Science in 2020. In case you missed the last series of Strange Evidence – we look at filmed material of bizarre phenomena and test out several theories as to what is happening. Then I reveal the most…
The Shroud of Turin – genuine or fake?
Tony McMahon investigates the Turin Shroud to see how science and faith have clashed over its authenticity and whether it really is the burial cloth of Jesus
Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!
In the early 19th century a criminal was brought back to life using Galvanic methods – the use of electricity that inspired the novel, Frankenstein
Murder of Jewish exiles in London – 700 years ago
King Edward I of England expelled Jewish people from his kingdom which resulted in a terrible mass murder in London as historian Tony McMahon discovers
Prisoners infect judges with typhus – jail fever!
In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later
London hated the French long before Brexit
Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers
The urban gang that terrorised Georgian London!
The Black Boy Alley gang terrorised Georgian London but were eventually executed en masse at Tyburn
The London of the The Frankenstein Chronicles
Historian Tony McMahon investigates the London of The Frankenstein Chronicles