Tom Phillips is a writer and journalist. He’s the author of three books – Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall For Them (2022, with Jonn Elledge), Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t (2019), and the internationally bestselling Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up (2018) – and is currently working on a fourth, on the history of the apocalypse.
As a journalist, he was most recently the editor of Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking organisation, and before that was editorial director and senior writer for BuzzFeed UK.
Books
Out now! A book about the long, strange history of conspiracy theories – and how many that cause havoc today have their origins centuries ago.
“Uproarious… [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories” – The Times Book of the Week
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