There's an editor of Scientific American who went on FOX news, was told not to talk about climate change, and is now tweeting about it all. The one that leapt out at me was the account of his conversation with the "makeup girl" (his words) where she spouts some conspiracy theory:
Everyone’s in a bubble. Makeup girl: Where u think the plane is? Me, puzzled: Bottom of the ocean? Her: No it’s on a military base somewhere
In case no one gets the reference, out in the realm of the right wing world that believes school shooting are staged in order to take away Americans' guns--a subset of the population that is propagated and fed daily by
various radio talk shows that reach millions--there are conspiracy theorists who posit that the lost Malaysian airliner has been
secretly taken to a US military base for some deeply murky political purpose.
So all the way down to the person doing make up for the guests, they have kooky believers working throughout the FOX organization. That's pretty alarming. I can see FOX wanting to avoid infiltrators or whistleblowers with some kind of background check (which would be bad enough), but to end up with conspiracy zombies? It's too much. Is it time to officially proclaim FOX a Scientology-like cult?