conspiracy theories

Article at TELEGRAPH (UK) - Influence of Conspiracy theories In Comments section of SCREW LOOSE CHANGE was post linking to article in TELEGRAPH (UK) concerning spread of conspiracy theories of one variety or another and how they influence society. Very interesting...

From a Washington Post review of The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein:

In particular this is meant for Aqua323, who sought a personal debate here after I asked if any conspiracists would be willing to pick up where bofors left off and actually provide a critique of the NIST report due to the fact that bofors did not. I suggested that Aqua323 address my 9/11...

I have yet to find these CTs online yet, but I've heard around the office that people have heard these various CTs: Arson: Several people have been arrested recently setting new fires. Including some guy on a Harley Davidson followed by a helicopter, and reported to police. (Sounds like too...

I've seen a few of the veteran posters on here refer to probability theory from time to time, as a means of illustrating how implausible conspiracy theories are. At the same time, I also recall seeing someone use probability theory to demonstrate the reliability of witnesses. apropos the...

So I'm perusing LCF, and I stumble across this little gem from "feralmet": :eye-poppi I know. Try to act surprised.

In a discussion with YouTube user dudepal187, he made several claims of which he is unwilling to seek expert opinion on. In an effort to appeal to his audience, I am providing his claims here for review. Study the following photograph: In the sea of broken metal and twisted columns, dudepal...

I find that I am often in agreement with Dawkins- in his vigorous pursuit of science and reason, he must inevitably tackle the faith of conspiracism. This is what brought me to debunking conspiracy theories- and probably others here as well. 8dfFEqa8wHk Link to video This is just the...

If a thread like this has been posted already, I'm sorry. I just had no idea as to what to search for in my search for it. This is something I've been thinking a lot about lately - what makes an event spawn conspiracy theories? Now, granted, I suppoose all events do at some point spawn...

In another one of his "press releases" Fetzer dives head first into the pool of crackpottery- by stating that the "analysis" done by Ace Baker is worthy of attention. What was his final tipping point? Get this... Like Ace- he seems to miss the problem of "video fakery" entirely. The only...

I just found this video this morning, and it's quite disturbing. o0ne3XVX_DU Part 1 t4nX08I8InA Part 2 QwJLkTS4Xxs Part 3 From what I can gather, a student was given some sort of presentation assignment and chose to do it on 9/11 conspiracy theories. The lack of research is astounding- she's...

Here's hoping most people get the thread title reference Okay so I'm in work today, and I get my hands on something interesting. It's the manuscript of a yet to published novel. Because it's not published you'll pardon if I go light on the details (ie how I got it, who wrote it etc...) The...

A hurricane bears down on some metropolis. It arrives and wipes out a good chunk of the city, leaving tens of thousands homeless. Amongst these homeless are are some fearless crusaders against the NWO. They have nothing, no where to go, no friends or family that can help but it just so happens...

What makes conspiracy theories so popular? I think this question has plagued all of us at one point or another- some of us may have an answer, others may not. I posed this question to an author I have been following for a while who writes on rhetoric and persuasion- Jay Heinrichs, aka...

Here is a lecture that I delivered to two high school classes this morning. A friend of mine teaches history to teens (my impression is that the youngsters in this class were about 15 years old or so). I tried to weave in some multimedia and was able to use Google Video to good effect...

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I originally posted this to the thread I started to promote the Moon Hoax talk I did a couple of weeks ago. But I thought the tests would be more use on the Conspiracy Theories section of the board. Anyway, in the talk, I presented ten tests which people can apply to conspiracy theories. = = =...

Though everyone is familiar with the filiations between American Free Press, Liberty Lobby, Bollyn, Hufschmid, Eric D Williams and the rest of the 9/11 Troof gang with Holocaust denial as a broad current, the fact remains that these people are not regarded as at all significant within the...

I came across this example of classic CT "investigation" whilst doing some other research. It's an old (2005) piece of speculation on the Jean Charles De Menezes police shooting, and picks up on what the author claims to be discrepancies, yet offers no real evidence. Despite clearly lacking the...

As most of you probably known, Ron Brown was the Commerce Secretary under Clinton who died in a plane crash in Bosnia in 1996. I have been vaguely aware that there were conspiracy theories floating around about Brown's death, specifically focusing on supposed evidence that Brown had been shot...

This is the final compilation post. I have gathered together the 4 separate parts I have written earlier. This post is for the ones, who come across these conspiracy theories and claims and want to know what really is behind them. This post is also for the more experienced conspiracy debators...

The long-awaited analysis of the JFK murder by noted prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi is due to be published this year. As expected, it doesn't look good for the conspiracy mongers. Not that they'll ever let the president rest in peace. Bolding mine. From Amazon.com.

One of our newbies, D2011, inspired me to request a category in the Links menu for all our 9/11 debunking and related sites, and tkingdoll graciously and speedily set it up for us. You can add links, rate them, comment on them, add them to your favorites, and best of all, use the category as a...

There are many famous CTs, and many are famous for having insane irritional followers, or people who just don't know better... Are there any CTs that are likely to be real, or real events that have proven to be a conspiricy? I would Imagine that people in power would have covered up some dirty...

From today's Salon (a biased source, obviously -- though biased in a direction I like, just to be up front about it...). Anyway, paranoid -- or not? July surprise? What better way to douse the excitement at the Democratic National Convention at the end of this month than for a Bush...

Okay, lets just think about Oswald a second. Things we know: #1 He was in the military, was taught Russian in the military, he had security clearance, and monitored US flights over Russia. #2 He was honorably discharged. #3 Was was on the news passing out flyers on Marxism and talking to...

This could get interesting who here believes that there was more too Vince Foster's death then was let out?