Tag: conspiracy theories

What is at the root of denial? A Must Read from Chris Mooney in Mother Jones

Jun 6, 2013

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MarkH

in Conspiracies, Cranks, Denialism, Skepticism

Chris Mooney has been exploring the basic underpinnings of denialism lately, with this latest article a good summary of the basic problems: In a recent study of climate blog readers, Lewandowksy and his colleagues found that the strongest predictor of being a climate change denier is having a libertarian, free market world view. Or as…
Conspiracy belief prevalence, according to Public Policy Polling is as high as 51%

Apr 5, 2013

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MarkH

in 9/11 Conspiracies, Conspiracies, Cranks, Genetically modified orgnaisms, Global Warming Denialism, Holocaust Denial, Homophobia, Mike Adams, Politics

And it may even be more when one considers that there is likely non-overlap between many of these conspiracies. It really is unfortunate that their isn’t more social pushback against those that express conspiratorial views. Given both the historical and modern tendency of some conspiracy theories being used direct hate towards one group or another…