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Why bogus? It's used by, amongst others: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Bild, Der Spiegel, Wikipedia. German academics use it in scientific publications. Go ahead, google it. Look it up in Scholar. Shall we write the editors of these newspapers and inform them that they cannot speak German? Shall we go...

You sound like one of those people yelling at youngsters for using words that they don't know. Languages evolve. I suggest you calm down, and just accept that those that use the German language to discuss conspiracy theories have good (linguistically founded) reasons to use the word "myth"...

Let's be scientific, by all means. The word "Verschwörungsmythen" is used in the German language academic research. Please check for yourself -- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=v ... ungsmythen

edit -- nevermind. No use arguing language. Speak it the way you like, I'll speak it the way I do :)

It's a word people use in the german language, so I'm pretty sure it qualifies as a german word ;) See, zB, the use in Wikipedia -- https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?se ... ikel&ns0=1 and, pertinently for this thread, it's use in the wiki article on QAnon: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

German has the word "conspiracy myth" (Verschwörungsmythen) as opposed to "conspiracy theory", which I find instructive because a "myth" is a genre of folklore (i.e. stories we tell ourselves/each other to make sense of the world). (German also (of course :) ) has a word for conspiracy theory...

Thanks for putting this so clearly.

I strongly dislike this. I get that this is meant to be a joke, but you're equating someone wanting to post nazi hate on the internet to someone wanting to buy a wedding cake. Try turning it around -- "Amazon doesn't want to host Parler, so I should be within my rights to not serve gay people"?

I have a tangentially related question -- how does apple do disk encryption? I've recently learned that newer android devices (android 10 and on) no longer do full disk encryption, instead doing "file encryption". This means that someone who stole my phone can see all my files, and their...

For anyone else who may be looking, the "deeply misleading graph" from Georgia can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200511203 ... 9801456640 (the linked story just mentions it, but doesn't show it). That the graph disappeared so quickly and completely, though, suggests that it was...

Small criticism to author -- you "post" on arxiv, to "publish" a paper is typically understood to require some level of review (which is not done on arxiv). They're obviously claiming that their work is "published" because it sounds more accomplished, but no need to propagate this misleading...