Nathan Radke

I didn't even know that there were Titanic conspiracies.

Man, okay, we'll do that another day.

You presented enough evidence.

We'll stick a pin in that one and come back.

But it's not that surprising.

I mean, conspiracy theories tend to spread in mysterious areas, and the ocean's a giant mystery in our own backyard.

It's often said we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the bottom of the ocean.

And because my students are like a good general barometer of what's happening in social media in general, when they started talking about the ocean, I went to social media and I said, ooh, I bet you there's going to be some ocean conspiracies surfacing there.

OK, so you remember back in January, we had some like properly impressive snowfalls and we had that one particularly gnarly winter storm that swept across most of the U.S.

and Canada.

It's still on the streets where I'm living right now.

There's still tons and tons of it outside.

And it interfered with travel and commuting.

And in Canada, we mostly shoveled through it.

But of course, down in the States, they're not used to this much snow.

And so a lot of places were just shut down for a few days to minimize chaos.

And when you have people shut in at home, something weird is going on.

That's just a great recipe for conspiracism.

I mean, absolutely that is the case.

And anytime there's an unusual weather event, which of course these days is a lot of the time, unfortunately, there's always a lot of conspiracy theories that come along with it.