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Conspiracy Theories : a primer

p-vii: FBI report about conspiracy theories
p02 ref 6 Stanley Kubrick allegedly helped fake Moon landing, Refuted by daughter Vivian
pxx ref 32
p48 Likert scale .p58
p59 Ch 3 ref 81 Paranormal America 2017 survey "25% of Americans believed that people can move objects with their minds"
p59 Linda Lyons, "Paranormal Beliefs Come (Super) Naturally to Some"
p67 conjunction fallacy -> conspiracy theories and paranormal phenomena
- Do I Think BLS Data are BS? The Consequences of Conspiracy Theories Political Behavior Vol. 37 pp. 679–701 (2015), Katherine Levine Einstein & David M. Glick
p67 Some strongly need cognitive closure, intolerant of uncertainty
p67 overactive cheater detectors, heavy debt + large insurance policy + house fire = suggests arson
p67 death of Supreme Court conservative Antonin Scalia 2016. Obama conspiracy? or overweight 79yo smoker with diabetes and heart problems?
p69 Cass Sunstein: conspiracy theories stem from crippled epistemologies
p69 Walter Lippmann: People look to the news the way a drunk looks to a lamppost -- not for illumination, bur rather for reinforcement.

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+ .p67 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy | conjunction fallacy ]] -> conspiracy theories and paranormal phenomena
  .[[ https://sites.bu.edu/dmglick/files/2014/01/BLSPaper_Submission.pdf | Do I Think BLS Data are BS? The Consequences of Conspiracy Theories ]] ''Political Behavior'' Vol. 37 pp. 679–701 (2015), Katherine Levine Einstein & David M. Glick 
 .p67 Some ''strongly need cognitive closure'', intolerant of uncertainty
 .p67 overactive ''cheater detectors'', heavy debt + large insurance policy + house fire = suggests arson
 .p67 death of Supreme Court conservative Antonin Scalia 2016.  Obama conspiracy? or overweight 79yo smoker with diabetes and heart problems?
 .p69 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein | Cass Sunstein]]: conspiracy theories stem from ''crippled epistemologies''
 .p69 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann | Walter Lippmann ]]: People look to the news the way a drunk looks to a lamppost -- not for illumination, bur rather for reinforcement.