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Luke Goebel is a guest on the panel “It Goes All the Way to the Top: Crime Organizations, Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Fiction” moderated by Oline Cogdill and featuring fellow authors Ace Atkins, S.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Appeared in the December 24, 2025, print edition as '2025’s Conspiracies and Theories'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

"Conspiracies are rooted in someone's belief system. They become someone's identity and their entire community, making them even more difficult to reject," social psychologist Dr Daniel Jolley at the University of Nottingham tells me.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2023

Mike Rothschild, a QAnon researcher and author of The World’s Worst Conspiracies, is skeptical that a critical mass will end up gathering at any of these sites in the long run.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2021

Conspiracies and connections as twisted and sticky as a black widow’s web.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman