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Conspiracy Theories: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational | Michael Shermer

Hidden Forces

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The Effect of Education on Conspiracy Theories

There's actually a great reservoir of them on C-SPAN, and I'm sure elsewhere too. So I've heard a lot of them from the Nixon administration, Kennedy, LBJ, and I believe Ford as well. You can't make those generalizations about any conspiracy theory because you can always find very educated people. Those people are even better at rationalizing beliefs that they hold usually for non-rational reasons.

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