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1 CONSPIRACIES
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What Is a Conspiracy Theory
And Why Do They Tend To Proliferate?
Conspiracies?
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calm, collected,
and in
control!
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References:
American Conspiracy Theories by Joseph Uscinski & Joseph Parent.
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag.
Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories,
by Michael J. Wood, Karen M. Douglas, and Robbie M. Sutton.
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Proof of the conspiracy supposedly emerges from a pattern of connecting the dots
between events that need
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except the allegation of
the conspiracy, or when
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is likely false.
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The conspiracy involves large numbers of people who would all need
to keep silent about their secrets.
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The theory tends to commingle facts and speculations without distinguishing between the two and without assigning
degrees of probability or of factuality.
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