Article on the psychology of conspiracy theories (from NYTimes)

[ThatGuy]

I found this article interesting and relevant to Metabunk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?hp

 

[Cairenn]

I was just about to post that.

Arthur Goldwag It's a predictor.... a correlate rather than a direct attribute. Sort of like saying that people that follow hockey are also likely to follow baseball. As for the second, I agree with you that it's tautological, but not that it's nonsense, because it gets at the deductive bias in conspiracy thinking--because this, then that. The NWO uses HAARP to turn weather into an instrument of terror and control, therefore the tornadoes in Oklahoma were caused by HAARP in order to, I don't know, distract from the AP scandal (http://friendshipagenda.com/videos/view/_19276).
Moore, Oklahoma Tornado - May 20, 2013 - H.A.A.R.P - Coincidence? - Videos - Friends of Freeman
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Arthur Goldwag writes on some conspiracies.

 

[Jay Reynolds]

Western Australia Times on the Cancer of Conspiracy:
http://www.watoday.com.au/comment/b.../the-cancer-of-conspiracy-20130718-2q76g.html