We're All Conspiracy Theorists Now...

Below, I reproduce an interesting article from the aangirfan blog.

From the study mentioned, it seems that, if not a majority, a significant amount of people do not believe what they are being told by the mainstream media or politicians. 

Whilst this is encouraging, the cleansing of our current political and economic system leaves a vacuum which the current financial oligarchy will be wanting to fill with their own stooges.

I believe we are in for an interesting end to the year...

 

On 8 July 2013, psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas, of the University of Kent in the UK, published a study of conspiracist and conventionalist comments at news websites. 

The authors were surprised to discover that:

Of the 2174 comments collected, 1459 were conspiracist and 715 were conventionalist. 

  "That means it is the pro-conspiracy commenters who are expressing what is now the conventional wisdom, while the anti-conspiracy commenters are becoming a small, beleaguered minority." 

The new study by Wood and Douglas suggests that the negative stereotype - a hostile fanatic wedded to the truth of his own fringe theory - "accurately describes the people who defend the official account of 9/11, not those who dispute it. (my emphasis).

In the new book Conspiracy Theory in America, Professor deHaven-Smith explains that the term 'conspiracy theorist' was invented by the CIA to smear people questioning the JFK assassination.

DeHaven-Smith points out that a very large number of conspiracy claims have turned out to be true.

Psychologist Laurie Manwell of the University of Guelph points out, in an article published in American Behavioral Scientist (2010), that anti-conspiracy people are unable to think clearly about such apparent state crimes against democracy as 9/11 due to their inability to process information that conflicts with pre-existing belief.

University of Buffalo professor Steven Hoffman adds that anti-conspiracy people are using irrational thinking.

The extreme irrationality of those who attack 'conspiracy theories' has been ably exposed by Communications professors Ginna Husting and Martin Orr in a 2007 peer-reviewed article entitled 'Dangerous Machinery: Conspiracy Theorist as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion'.