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5 Ways Every Conspiracy Theory Makes the World Worse
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:11 am
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:11 am
#5. The More Information People Have Access to, the Worse It Gets
#4. People Are Dying
#3. It's a For-Profit Industry
#2. They Bring Out the Worst in People
#1. They Make It Impossible to Fix the Real Problems
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Right after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, about 52 percent of people thought there was some kind of conspiracy at play, according to polls at the time. Of course, this was the dark ages of the 1960s, before you could just tap your iPhone and instantly find thorough debunkings of the conspiracy theories and dead simple explanations of things like the "magic bullet."
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See, conspiracy buffs have a very specific method -- they'll pore through the available data until they find something that confirms their belief, like an odd shadow in a single moon landing photo that somehow proves the whole thing was the most expensive and pointless hoax of all time (seriously, if they were going to fake it, couldn't they have thrown in some aliens or something to make it interesting?). They ignore all of the other evidence, so the sheer volume of available data actually makes their job easier.
#4. People Are Dying
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But when, in 1998, medical journal The Lancet published a single solitary study that showed a possible link between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism, it created a worldwide panic that's still raging 16 years later.
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The article was almost immediately discredited as fraud, retracted with an apology, and the author banned from practicing medicine, which is about as hard as you can possibly tell a scientist to go frick himself while jumping down a well.
#3. It's a For-Profit Industry
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However, none can hold a candle to the money generated by professional talk radio hucksters like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. Through their individual media empires (which cover the media of print, radio, TV, the Internet, and penis-powering vitality serum), Jones and Beck alone rake in up to $10 million and $45 million a year, respectively.
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On the even more batshit end of the spectrum, Jones is hocking his own brand of health supplements to reverse the damage that's being done to your body by the fluoride that the government is pumping into your water supply to murder you, and by the chemicals being sprayed on you by aircraft, which the government has the audacity to call vapor trails.
#2. They Bring Out the Worst in People
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Studies have found that people who believe in conspiracy theories tend to be much more cynical about life, feel more powerless, and have almost no self-esteem. This all amounts to a much more pissed-off population, and conspiracy theorists aren't shy about unleashing their anger on those who don't share their views.
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ask Charlie Veitch, a former prominent 9/11 conspiracy theorist who later changed his mind. After going on YouTube to admit that he no longer thought 9/11 was an inside job, he had to go into hiding as thousands of conspiracy theorists from around the world set upon him with death threats. Someone contacted his mother to tell her that Veitch was a pedophile, and Alex Jones went on record to call him a sociopath.
#1. They Make It Impossible to Fix the Real Problems
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Yet, surveys of the participant's emotions after they'd finished watching the movie showed that most left with feelings of anger and hopelessness, as well as a general unwillingness to accept the official story. They reported afterward that they felt more disillusioned with politics and less enthusiastic about voting (after all, what does it matter when you're voting for the Zionist NWO Illuminati Freemasons either way?) In another study, people who heard conspiracy theories about global warming were less interested in lowering their carbon footprint. In both cases, the theory gave them the excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway: give up.
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So conspiracy theories end up being a bait-and-switch move where the fictional version of the problem soaks up whatever energy could be spent actually improving things.
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:15 am to Slippery Slope
Coast to Coast has a radio show devoted to it, and I have never heard crazier people than those who call into it. I used to listen to it while on patrol, and I was always baffled at how blatantly insane the callers were.
One up.
One up.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:17 am to Slippery Slope
slides in smoothly, well ahead of Sleeping Tiger
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:28 am to Slippery Slope
It is amazing how so many people are woefully incapable of rational thought.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:36 am to Slippery Slope
I have nothing to add here, I'm just waiting for ST to show up.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 10:11 am to Slippery Slope
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#5. The More Information People Have Access to, the Worse It Gets
So the answer is we should tell people as little as possible. The more government restriction to data, the better. Thanks Obama.
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#4. People Are Dying
More accurately the resurgence of Whooping Cough and other diseases is because of hipster moms deciding not to vaccinate and the flood of disease coming across the southern border.
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3. It's a For-Profit Industry
Which instantly makes it evil. As opposed to the gubermint, which loves you all and is made up of people who don't have a selfish bone in their body. Alex Jones is admittedly a nut, but Beck's biggest 'conspiracy' is George Soros, which isn't much of a conspiracy since Soros does all his funding in the open any way, just liek the Koch brothers. "BUT THE KOCH BROTHERS ARE EVIL!" you say. Well so is Soros. Deal with it.
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#2. They Bring Out the Worst in People
So does an NFL tailgate party. So what?
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#1. They Make It Impossible to Fix the Real Problems
No, that would be the lazy incompetents who make up our state and national government.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 11:36 am to Slippery Slope
The only conspiracies I think have any kind of weight or believability are those surrounding the Kennedy assassination.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 12:56 pm to Slippery Slope
How can you explain the fact that the government doesn't want us wearing tin foil hats anymore because they know that they work, and instead have replaced all of the tin foil with aluminum foil which doesn't reflect the ultra low frequency waves?
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 2:20 pm to Slippery Slope
Don't listen to these studies paid for by the illuminati and Rothschilds. They are to misinform you and keep you in the dark.
Don't be a sheep
Don't be a sheep
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:27 pm to Slippery Slope
Great fricking article. While I do think the mob killed JFK, I despise basically every other conspiracy theory in the world. They waste our time, money, and intelligence.
Honestly, I get worked up over conspiracy theories because I think it does ruin society and they won't listen no matter what you tell them. But I'm really the one losing here, not the theorists. Honestly, conspiracy theorists should merely be ridiculed and not give their opinions a seconds thought.
Honestly, I get worked up over conspiracy theories because I think it does ruin society and they won't listen no matter what you tell them. But I'm really the one losing here, not the theorists. Honestly, conspiracy theorists should merely be ridiculed and not give their opinions a seconds thought.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:37 pm to Slippery Slope
9/11 was a conspiracy
Carried out by al-Qaeda
Carried out by al-Qaeda
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