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Conspiracy theories stack

6 Mar 2022

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How and why conspiracy/fringe theories stack:

believing that Earth is flat essentially requires that you think that NASA’s achievements are part of an elaborate conspiracy: there is no ability to travel to the Moon, nor are the photographs of a globular Earth from space authentic.

Reminds me of the contrarian cluster.

Edit: I’ve written this up more comprehensively here.


Anthologies: Connection, Somatic Architecture, Thought Architecture, Narrative Culture, Psychologia, Cognitive Karstica, On Thinking and Reasoning

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