New Dutch paper Analyzes how Conspiracy Theorists see themselves

Jay Reynolds

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I found this to be interesting, but haven't been able to read the whole paper yet.

If you ask someone who believes in chemtrails or identifies as a 9/11 truther why they believe conspiracy theories, they'll tell you that they aren't conspiracy theorists at all.

Instead, most who believe in these theories think of themselves as "critical freethinkers," willing to challenge the conventional wisdom, according to a study recently published in the journal Cultural Sociology.

"[C]onspiracy theorists appropriate the image of the radical freethinker to differentiate themselves from the 'sheeple' who simply follow the crowd," authors Jaron Harambam of Erasmus University in the Netherlands and Stef Aupers of the University of Leuven in Belgium write.
Content from External Source
http://www.businessinsider.com/conspiracy-theorists-critical-freethinkers-sheeple-2016-10


Full Paper:
http://sci-hub.io/10.1177/1749975516661959#
 
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