Conspiracy Theory: the fictitious explanation involving mysterious and vague "powers" that are tied to the failures of those afflicted with the delusion. This shifting of blame provides an emotional fulfillment that explains their own failings without requiring difficult introspection and self-assessment. Depending on degree of delusion, it can encompass a secretive plot that includes pretty much everyone that the subject considers adversaries, even on a global scale.
It is an especially pernicious affliction from a clinical standpoint since the arguments are airtight. Every piece of evidence against it will be viewed as an attempt to "misinform the public", and the lack of evidence for it is viewed as a government cover-up since nothing can constitute evidence that the conspiracy is fictitious.
At best, you'll always fail to sway the subject but you can help innoculate others through reason in dialogues and debates, such as the problem of scaling." The Moon landing was a hoax conspiracy, for instance, would requite tens of thousands of co-conspirators who have kept silent through the decades.
Some popular delusions of this variety:
Big Pharma is poisoning our children!
Evolution is a secular plot to take God out of the classroom!
The Moon landing was faked!
Climate change is a hoax to subvert freedom lovers under UN dominion!
Obama's birth certificate is a fraud because he was born in Kenya!
The Sandy Hook massacre was staged by the government to round up our guns!
It is an especially pernicious affliction from a clinical standpoint since the arguments are airtight. Every piece of evidence against it will be viewed as an attempt to "misinform the public", and the lack of evidence for it is viewed as a government cover-up since nothing can constitute evidence that the conspiracy is fictitious.
At best, you'll always fail to sway the subject but you can help innoculate others through reason in dialogues and debates, such as the problem of scaling." The Moon landing was a hoax conspiracy, for instance, would requite tens of thousands of co-conspirators who have kept silent through the decades.
Some popular delusions of this variety:
Big Pharma is poisoning our children!
Evolution is a secular plot to take God out of the classroom!
The Moon landing was faked!
Climate change is a hoax to subvert freedom lovers under UN dominion!
Obama's birth certificate is a fraud because he was born in Kenya!
The Sandy Hook massacre was staged by the government to round up our guns!
His conspiracy theory was that lizard-headed alien overlords are responsible for our concern about global warming and no evidence could possibly demonstrate otherwise because he insisted it came from the "overlords" themselves.
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An idea that something is not as it seems or has been protrayed.
Facts showing that what we know could be different than what is.
An idea that something is not as it seems or has been protrayed.
Facts showing that what we know could be different than what is.
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Get the Conspiracy theory mug.Something made up by morons because they either lack understanding in political and scientific consensus, ergo disbelieving it to cover up the fact they aren't educated on those topics. In short, a conspiracy theory is made to make stupid people feel more intelligent and scholarly, albeit the only sources they have gathered information from are either from YouTube, Facebook, or some satire hoax video or an article from a conspiracy website rather than an official source or fact checking their sources before blindly believing it. They won't research on both sides of the narrative because they are biased towards their narrative and prefer to cherry pick their evidence, e.g they won't check for logical fallacies or contradictions, won't check if the source has a history of spreading misinformation, they won't bother checking the date of when the source was published, on this account they begin to spout shit that had already been disproved by professionals or those in power. For those who are unable to differentiate between critical thinking and conspiracy theorism, conspiracy theorists tend to blindly follow a source, ironically they call their more intellectually superior counterparts sheeple for blindly following the mainstream news, but they nevertheless follow an alternative source by some random guy on social media or a conspiracy or pseudoscience article.
Idiot: Have you ever heard of "pLaNdEmIc?"
Educated person: Yes I have heard of the plandemic conspiracy theory, but because I actually took my time to search for errors in the source i.e logical fallacies, who created the video (an anti vaxxer) and research on what scientists had to say about it and according to the scientists, the vaccine is safe and I shall be having it when it is my turn. 😁
Idiot: Yeah whatever dumb sheeple 💉🐑
So don't be like the idiot and be like the educated person because the educated person has done their critical thinking, used fact check sources such as BBC reality check, researched the truth about vaccines on pro-science sources etc. If you are unsure of the type of websites you should be retaining facts from, try asking a professional i.e a doctor, librarian, teacher or a professor.
Educated person: Yes I have heard of the plandemic conspiracy theory, but because I actually took my time to search for errors in the source i.e logical fallacies, who created the video (an anti vaxxer) and research on what scientists had to say about it and according to the scientists, the vaccine is safe and I shall be having it when it is my turn. 😁
Idiot: Yeah whatever dumb sheeple 💉🐑
So don't be like the idiot and be like the educated person because the educated person has done their critical thinking, used fact check sources such as BBC reality check, researched the truth about vaccines on pro-science sources etc. If you are unsure of the type of websites you should be retaining facts from, try asking a professional i.e a doctor, librarian, teacher or a professor.
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