DAMIAN THOMPSON completed his PhD in the sociology of religion at the London School of Economics. He is a leader-writer for the Daily Telegraph. He is also editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald and the author of The End of Time (1996) and Waiting for Antichrist (2005). Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history, was published by Atlantic Books in 2008.
