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Michael Shermer

Conspiracy

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p003 Bilderberg Group ?Bilderberger?
- sinc3 1954, annual meeting of 150 invitees discussing free market capitalism
p010 OJ murder evidence clear, but acquitted because LAPD have often been racist and planted false evidence
p014 Type 1 error assuming real when not (false positive), Type 2 error assuming not real (false negative)
p014 in distant past: assume predator, safe, assume no predator, get eaten
p015 ultimate (deep) causes embellished with proximate (immediate) psychological&sociological forces
p016 overlaid with motivated reasoning,
- cognitive dissonance,
- teleological thinking,
- transcendental thinking,
- locus of control,
- anxiety reduction,
- confirmation bias,
- attribution bias,
- hindsight bias,
- myside bias,
- oversimplification of complex problems,
- patternicity,
- agenticity
p025 The United States of Paranoia Jesse Walker
p026 A Culture of Conspiracy Michael Barkun at Syracuse University event, systemic, and super conspiracy theories
p027 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373879-conspiracies-declassified Brian Dunning
p027 The 50 60 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time Jonathan Vankin John Whalen
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p028 None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen and Larry Abraham
p028 Manichean Machiavellian
p028 Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories Rob Brotherton
p033 Christopher Bader list of government coverup beliefs from 9/11 54% to the moon landing 24%
p033 list includes made-up event "the North Dakota c[[ with 33%, indicating foundational distrust in US government
p035 Defense of Muslim the Lands by Abdullah Yusuf Azzam intellectual founder of al-Qaeda
p041 Great Replacement ... by 15 million Jews?
- Jewish birthrates "lowest in the world" 1.9 compared to 2.3 average in the US
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  . The ''50'' [[ goodreads.com/book/show/6814745-the-60-greatest-conspiracies-of-all-time | 60 ]] ''80'' Greatest Conspiracies of All Time [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Vankin | Jonathan Vankin  ]]  [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwhalen/ | John Whalen ]]
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   .similar on [[ https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Conspiracy+Theory+books | Amazon ]]
 .p028 [[ https://archive.org/details/nonedarecallitco1971alle | None Dare Call It Conspiracy ]] by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Allen | Gary Allen ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_H._Abraham | Larry Abraham ]]
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 .p035  [[ https://ebooks.worldofislam.info/ebooks/Jihad/Defence%20of%20Muslim%20Lands.pdf |Defense of Muslim the Lands ]] by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam | Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ]] intellectual founder of [[  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda| al-Qaeda ]]
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 .p035 [[ https://ebooks.worldofislam.info/ebooks/Jihad/Defence%20of%20Muslim%20Lands.pdf | Defense of Muslim the Lands ]] by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam | Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ]] intellectual founder of [[  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda| al-Qaeda ]]
 .p041 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory | Great Replacement ]] ... by 15 million Jews?
  .Jewish birthrates "lowest in the world" [[ https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/jewish-demographics/ | 1.9 compared to 2.3 average in the US ]] 
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