With Christmas Day just gone, it seems fitting that Steph Curry already has something he’d probably like to take back. “There’s world hunger going on, there are political things going on,” Irving told a gaggle of beat reporters. We’re [thinkers] but you don’t want us to be that.”It used to be that conspiracy theorists hewed to a type. When the Seattle Seahawks’ Pete Carroll was reported to have confronted a former US Army general with popular 9/11 conspiracy theories, those truthers cheered the Super Bowl-winning coach for boosting their credibility. According to a 2014 study published in the American Journal of Political Science, “half of the American public consistently endorse at least one conspiracy theory.” If anything, it makes athletes just like the rest of us.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2018 09:22 UTC