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I decided to embark on a comedy search on google, and to find out what people think about us "conspiracists". I am sure I will come across a lot of stupid people, and a lot of intelligent answers, too.
Why are there so many conspiracy theories? - Yahoo! Answers
But also all the other answers are very stupid and disappointing.
Let's move on to more Yahoo! Answers questions.
Why are there so many conspiracy theorists? - Yahoo! Answers
Oh, my god, another idiot answering the question:
Why are there so many people who believe in stupid conspiracy theories? - Yahoo! Answers
Why are there so many conspiracy theories on YouTube? Do people actually buy into this garbage? - Yahoo! Answers
But another user advised to use this excellent website, which is a concise summary of all conspiracy theories (funny how he wrote something like "yeah, they're outlandish" and then he gave him a website that concisely sums up all "outlandish" but true theories):
Summaries, Information Centers for 9/11, media, war, health, energy, elections cover-ups
And here is the usual psychiatrist approach to conspiracy theories (he doesn't bother to verify them, but analyzes the patient believing them):
Why People Believe in Conspiracies
Oh, no wonder! The author is a psychologist:
Michael Shermer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Let's keep reading, because he sounds a lot like my father and other idiots such as Jonathan Kay. Arrogant idiots who become stupid by how knowledgeable and arrogant they are.
Very intelligent comment on the bottom of the article itself:
I decided to embark on a comedy search on google, and to find out what people think about us "conspiracists". I am sure I will come across a lot of stupid people, and a lot of intelligent answers, too.
Why are there so many conspiracy theories? - Yahoo! Answers
I'd have expected that some naive person asked this question on yahoo answers. Let's see if they replied "because it's true", as I am expecting.Why are there so many conspiracy theories?
I don't understand why people believe that our government was behind 9/11
There we go: this is the stupidity I was also expecting.Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
There are a lot of crazy people out there.
But also all the other answers are very stupid and disappointing.
Let's move on to more Yahoo! Answers questions.
Why are there so many conspiracy theorists? - Yahoo! Answers
Again, a very naive question.Why are there so many conspiracy theorists?
For instance, there's the people that think the moon-landing was fake. I think this webpage thoroughly disproves that: http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/…
Then there's those who think that 9/11 was faked. This video, in my opinion, disproves those who say that the plane was a CG image
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And for those who think that our government did it... I don't know how you can be so stupid.
Oh, my god, another idiot answering the question:
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People are programed to seek out patterns. We are encouraged to by a release of dopamine.
Also, in my personal opinion, people are always trying to gain power. You take a situation like 911 when people are searching for answers and somebody comes along and pretends they are handing out the truth. And by listening to these people rant about the government and "the man" instead the power is just being transfered to them.
Why are there so many people who believe in stupid conspiracy theories? - Yahoo! Answers
Why are there so many people who believe in stupid conspiracy theories?
Why do people believe in such nonsensical conspiracy theories like "9/11 was an inside job" or "New world order" Why is there such nonsense like this out there. Also I see many people flock to people like Alex Jones a crazy conspiracy theorist. I don't understand why people believe these types of things! Is it just to rebel against the status quo?
It is disappointing and at the same time hilarious to see what the non-awakened are thinking.Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
People here this stuff and listen to the ridiculous "evidence" and think it makes sense plus they dont want to accept the truth as for what it is and want something totally untrue to be true. They also use it to hate on others. There just dumb.
Why are there so many conspiracy theories on YouTube? Do people actually buy into this garbage? - Yahoo! Answers
Why are there so many conspiracy theories on YouTube? Do people actually buy into this garbage?
After arguing with a friend about the existence of some of the more prevalent conspiracy theories I decided to check into it for myself. I turned to you tube amongst others and I have to say I am surely not convinced. From the 2012 conspiracy to a bunch of garbage on the existence of secret societies that control our world at its root core.This all proven apparently by Disney movies and the britney spears trainwreck! lol How many people actually believe this? Do people believe everything they watch? That's the terrifying part!
This is hilarious and yet so wrong. I am the village idiot, all right, like Einstein was. Too bad, the average "conspiracy theorist" is anything but stupid or ignorant.Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
It's the Village Idiot syndrome. Once solitary and ignored, they can now share their fantasies with other village idiots, thanks to the internet in general and YouTube in particular.
Just ignore them. If no-one at all commented on their videos, they'd just hate it.
But another user advised to use this excellent website, which is a concise summary of all conspiracy theories (funny how he wrote something like "yeah, they're outlandish" and then he gave him a website that concisely sums up all "outlandish" but true theories):
Summaries, Information Centers for 9/11, media, war, health, energy, elections cover-ups
And here is the usual psychiatrist approach to conspiracy theories (he doesn't bother to verify them, but analyzes the patient believing them):
Why People Believe in Conspiracies
After a public lecture in 2005, I was buttonholed by a documentary filmmaker with Michael Moore-ish ambitions of exposing the conspiracy behind 9/11. “You mean the conspiracy by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to attack the United States?” I asked rhetorically, knowing what was to come.
“That’s what they want you to believe,” he said. “Who is they?” I queried. “The government,” he whispered, as if “they” might be listening at that very moment. “But didn’t Osama and some members of al Qaeda not only say they did it,” I reminded him, “they gloated about what a glorious triumph it was?”
“Oh, you’re talking about that video of Osama,” he rejoined knowingly. “That was faked by the CIA and leaked to the American press to mislead us. There has been a disinformation campaign going on ever since 9/11.”
Awesome reasoning, but wrong. The conspiracies he doesn't believe are self-evident, yet he doesn't bother to check them - just assumes they cannot happen.Complex conspiracies are difficult to pull off, and so many people want their quarter hour of fame that even the Men in Black couldn’t squelch the squealers from spilling the beans. So there’s a good chance that the more elaborate a conspiracy theory is, and the more people that would need to be involved, the less likely it is true.
Oh, no wonder! The author is a psychologist:
Michael Shermer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What a ****ing idiot he is... despite all his knowledge.Shermer completed his master's degree from California State University in experimental psychology in 1978.[13]
Let's keep reading, because he sounds a lot like my father and other idiots such as Jonathan Kay. Arrogant idiots who become stupid by how knowledgeable and arrogant they are.
Fascinating reasoning and yet wrong once again. I am not saying all this deception is produced by the Reptilians or the Illuminati. I am always saying instead that I know we're being deceived but I wonder who's at the top, and I know that the government is part of it for sure, but I don't know for sure who's behind it and even if there's someone behind or if this is simply the consequence of a generalized greed and corporate power gone out of control. I did not say who the mastermind is, because I don't have such facts. Certainly the freemasons exist, other secret societies exist, too... but I don't know how they're involved in this. But to say that 911 was done by Bin Laden is laughable. And the same applies to his disproving all the other conspiracies based on psychological explanations of us patients. You goddamn moron: take one day to study the evidence there is instead of discarding it from the start.Why do people believe in highly improbable conspiracies? In previous columns I have provided partial answers, citing patternicity (the tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise) and agenticity (the bent to believe the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents). Conspiracy theories connect the dots of random events into meaningful patterns and then infuse those patterns with intentional agency. Add to those propensities the confirmation bias (which seeks and finds confirmatory evidence for what we already believe) and the hindsight bias (which tailors after-the-fact explanations to what we already know happened), and we have the foundation for conspiratorial cognition.
Very intelligent comment on the bottom of the article itself:
Oh, and this, too:2. Bob In Pacifica
06:50 PM 8/21/09
People often believe in conspiracies because they are the most logical explanation. And scientific models don't necessarily translate. As Shermer invokes the JFK assassination we can start there.
If one considers that the CIA may have been behind the murder of Kennedy there are immediate problems with investigating the hypothesis. One problem isn't that "people can't keep their mouths shut" as G. Gordon Liddy told Shermer. In fact, there is a book out titled SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TALKED that investigates the many people who have talked. Rather, the problem is to figure out who is telling the truth and who is lying. My suggestion to Shermer is that Liddy is not very reliable and his history in intelligence would give him a motive to be dishnoest in these matters.
Another problem is that the CIA (and I'll use the organization here as the American intelligence community generally) has large and publicly unknown resources to influence the media. One need only review findings of Congressional investigations of the seventies. So reporting, or for that matter the general opinion as reflected in the media, has been influenced to some unknown extent by CIA allies in the press. When Stone's "JFK" came out about 90% of Americans believed there was some kind of conspiracy to kill JFK but it was nearly impossible to find that opinion within mainstream media commentary.
Why should the CIA be suspected? Because they have been behind many coups and assassinations before and after JFK's murder.
In 1992 then-CIA Director Robert Gates refused to declassify a report about the man who posed as Oswald in Mexico City a month and a half before the assassination. If someone were posing as Oswald, trying to create a myth of Oswald getting in touch with the Soviet embassy and the Cuban consulate before the assassination, then Oswald simply was not a lone nut. That there were reports of another Oswald in the Dallas area and a third in New Orleans on the same day suggests the intelligence practice of using doubles with the same identity.
While many documents are still classified (like tax and work records of the Oswalds) there has been a lot of new information declassified in the 1990s, almost all of which seems to be ignored by the mainstream which is quite content not to "go there".
When Shermer invokes JFK's murder as an example of paranoia and conspiracy theory he gives "rational thinking" a bad name. It is sometimes rational to mistrust people whose business is deception.
More intelligent readers:3. TooMany
05:29 PM 8/30/09
Please read about operations Mongoose and Northwood to get some insight into the proclivity of people with power to conspire to deceive the public. Note that the only reason that Operation Northwood came to light is that Robert McNamara kept a copy of a secret document which was supposes to be destroyed. The public would never have been the wiser had it not shown up in his papers after his death decades following this plan.
Rather than look down upon those who question what is presented to them by the media and government, you might try some questioning yourself.
Regarding 9/11, take a very close look at the videos of the three World Trade Center buildings collapsing. Are you really seeing three unprecedented, fire-induced collapses of structures made largely of steel? Unprecedented events require careful examination. Without hard evidence it is relatively easy to dismiss correct conspiracy theories. Even the fire departments admit that evidence that would normally be carefully examined in the event of a collapsed structure in a fire was deliberately destroyed.
How is it that our massive air defense system was unable to pursue even one of four airplanes known to be hijacked? How easy it was to slam one into the pentagon! By gosh we are defenseless!
Regarding your disbelief in the possibility of keeping something earthshaking secret, consider the two years of secrecy involving thousand of people that created the first atomic bomb. Most of them didnt even know what they were working on.
Conspiracy theories are not all crazy. They are frequently formulated from undeniable facts that are conveniently brushed aside by groups and interests that have the power to do so and the need to hide the facts. You don't have to silence everyone who might come forward with information; you only need discredit them as you attempt to do in your article.
Too bad there's 140 of these great intelligent comments and I can't read them all.7. Gavin Cato
09:58 AM 9/10/09
How did the government keep the Manhattan Project and D-Day a secret? According to Shermer is would be impossible for so many thousands to stay quiet. How did the 19 flight school dropouts and their assistants keep a secret? How does Shermer decide which conspiracy is improbable and which gets his stamp of approval?
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8. apache
10:14 AM 9/10/09
in my opinoin the reason conspiriacies are easy to suspect but hard to prove is that humans regularly engage in conspitorial behavior, have you ever attened a work "meeting" or professional confrence? If so look up the definition of conspiracy. They are everywhere but most are realitivly benign and ineffective
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