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Susannah Crockford

Susannah Crockford is an anthropologist at the University of Exeter, where she researches cultural understandings of medicine, environment, and religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press, and her second monograph, A Perturbed System: Ethnographic Fragments from the End of a World, is in preparation for the same publisher. She is the editor of Fieldwork in Religion. This publication was made possible through the support of grant #63243 ​from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow on BlueSky: @suscrockford.bsky.social.

Archive, Healthcare, Politics/Law, Science & TechnologyMay 7, 2025

This White Man’s Blunder — Why RFK’s Obsession with Chemtrails and Terrain Theory Won’t Make America Healthy

By Susannah Crockford

Another day, another series of alarming claims from Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the current head…

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Mooby the Golden Calf from Kevin Smith’s Dogma
Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/Justice, Sexuality/Gender, UncategorizedApril 16, 2025

RFK Jr’s Campaign Against Seed Oils Isn’t Just Junk Science — It’s Misogynist Identity Politics

By Susannah Crockford

Just before the November election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr…

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stands at a podium looking directly into the camera with intensity.
Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Science & TechnologyFebruary 26, 2025

Even RFK’s More Benign-Sounding Rhetoric is Rooted in the Dangerous Ideology Set to Guide U.S. Health Policy

By Susannah Crockford

Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser, nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper, and vaccine skeptic,…

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Archive, Books, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, New Books, Politics/Law, Racial JusticeAugust 21, 2024

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

The outlines of QAnon conspiracy theories are by now familiar to many. The battle of…

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Black and white image of Betty and Barney Hill side by side with hands clasped.
Archive, Books, New Books, OMFG, Racial Justice, Science & TechnologySeptember 12, 2023

From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Media Analysis, Politics/LawNovember 2, 2022

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

Around 3 a.m. on October 28, David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, Speaker of the House…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Trump arrestJanuary 1, 2022

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

Almost as soon as the tear gas cleared from the Capitol grounds on Jan 6,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Science & TechnologyMay 13, 2021

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation 

By Susannah Crockford

“Are imperfect people welcome in the health freedom movement?” asks an email sitting presumptuously at the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawJanuary 11, 2021

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…

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(A)theologies, Archive, CultureJanuary 4, 2021

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you…

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