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Why It’s Never a Good Idea to Engage Conspiracy Theorists

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Rayan Zehn

Yesterday I broke one of my cardinal rules on the Internet; I responded to a Facebook post suggesting the US government conspired to murder an unknown director and his entire family because of a Youtube video. In this post I … Continue reading →

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Study: Religious people more likely to believe in conspiracy theories

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Rayan Zehn

In the current issue of American Journal of Political Science (October 2014), two researchers from the University of Chicago, J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, published a study titled, “Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion.” The pair used data … Continue reading →

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