10 things you might not know about conspiracy theories
By Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer via chicagotribune.com The grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, where the 1963 assasination of US President John F. Kennedy took place in Dallas. We’re approaching the 50th...
View ArticleAnother Tower Fell: My Months with the 9/11 Truthers
By Carrie Poppy via The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry – CSI Ross and I are in a coffee shop, on a miserably uncomfortable bench that may have once been a church pew, surrounded by conspiracy...
View ArticleConspiracy Theory As Pseudo Theory
By Tony Sobrado via Conspiracy Theory As Pseudo Theory Theory is often regarded a systematic framework formed of concepts that analytically account for phenomena observed. Philosophers for centuries...
View Article8 clues your friend is becoming a crazy conspiracy theorist
By Robyn Pennacchia via Death and Taxes It’s happened to all of us. Some friend we had in elementary school or from an old job is all of a sudden making super weird comments on Facebook, or you’re in a...
View ArticleSame Sh**, Different Year.
So i was having a written exchange with a couple of conspiracists. They were posting links ranting on and on about FEMA camps, martial law, something about foreign troops being trained to disarm...
View ArticleConspiracy theory psychology: People who claim to know the truth about JFK,...
The fascinating psychology of people who know the real truth about JFK, UFOs, and 9/11. By William Saletan via slate.com To believe that the U.S. government planned or deliberately allowed the 9/11...
View ArticleA Conspiracy Theory Primer – In Fun Alphabet Form!
By Mike Rothschild via Skeptoid Modern conspiracy movements come and go so quickly that it can be hard to keep up with the new threats and concepts that get tossed around social media and the water...
View ArticleNovember 22, 1963
Via The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Click image for larger, more legible view. Click image for larger, more legible view.Click here for a PDF copy. Related articles November 22nd, 1963: The...
View ArticleInside the minds of the JFK conspiracy theorists
by William Saletan via New Scientist To believe that the US government planned or deliberately allowed the 9/11 attacks, you’d have to posit that President Bush intentionally sacrificed 3,000...
View ArticleConspiracy theories: Why we believe the unbelievable
By Michael Shermer via latimes.com With the passing of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy last week, and the accompanying fusillade of documentaries purporting to...
View ArticleThe Conspiratorial Mind
By Mason I. Bilderberg If you have a hardcore interest in the conspiratorial mind like i do, i think you’ll enjoy what i have to offer today. The Bob Charles Show There is an internet radio broadcast...
View Article“Fast and Furious” Star Paul Walker Was Assassinated by an Obama Drone Strike?
The crash that killed Paul Walker. By Mason I. Bilderberg (MIB) As most of you probably already know, Paul Walker of “‘The Fast and the Furious‘ movie franchise and a friend identified as Roger Rodas...
View ArticleThe 10 most bizarre, absurd, and dumb conspiracy theories of 2013
By The Locke via The Soap Box Throughout this year there were a lot of new conspiracy theories going around. Some of them were scary. Some of them were weird. And some of them were just bizarre,...
View ArticleElf on the Shelf revealed to be part of secret NSA spying program
By Kim Z Dale via Listing Toward Forty – chicagonow.com Top secret documents leaked by former contractor Edward Let-It-Snowden reveal a previously unknown NSA program code-named SANTA (Securing...
View ArticleCan i get some walk with all that talk?
By Mason I. Bilderberg For this article I’m throwing in a bit of a curveball from what you’ve come to expect from iLLumiNuTTi. This article is not about proving or disproving conspiracies. Whether you...
View ArticleWhat are chemtrails, and are they dangerous?
By CLINT WILLIAMS via The Bellingham Herald Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a chemtrail! The persistent high-altitude contrails are more than stripes in the stratosphere. They are...
View ArticleThe psychology of conspiracy theories (PDF)
This is a PDF file i found at conspiracypsychology.com. This 56 page document is published by The British Psychological Society and i’ve just begun reading it, so i can’t yet say whether i love it or...
View ArticleConspiracy theories as quasi-religious mentality -
An integrated account from cognitive science, social representations theory, and frame theory Via Frontiers in Psychology Conspiracists gone camping Conspiracy theories (CTs) can take many forms and...
View ArticleNSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa
By G-Had via DuffelBlog FORT MEADE, MD – The National Security Agency routinely intercepts children’s letters to Santa, internal agency documents have revealed. The documents describe an operation...
View ArticleHow Conspiracy Theories Work
By Marshall Brain via HowStuffWorks Are you the kind of person who likes to hear to a good conspiracy theory? Some people simply do not like the discomfort that a conspiracy theory creates. But for...
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