/oss/taxonomy/term/4798/all en /oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/covid-19-nonsense-may-not-be-benign <p>There is a great deal of nonsense being spread about COVID-19. No matter how outrageous a claim, it gets traction with some people. It seems hard to believe that some actually believe that Bill Gates is bent on controlling the world by implanting people with microchips via vaccines or that Datura seeds can cure the disease because their shape resembles the coronavirus. Yet these beliefs are out there and they are not benign.</p> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:39:09 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8408 at /oss