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The authors suggest there is a higher-order process at work that they call global coherence that overrules local contradictions: “Someone who believes in a significant number of conspiracy theories would naturally begin to see authorities as fundamentally deceptive, and new conspiracy theories would seem more plausible in light of that belief.” Moreover, “conspiracy advocates' distrust of official narratives may be so strong that many alternative theories are simultaneously endorsed in spite of any contradictions between them.” Thus, they assert, “the more that participants believe that a person at the centre of a death-related conspiracy theory, such as Princess Diana or Osama [bin] Laden, is still alive, the more they also tend to believe that the same person was killed, so long as the alleged manner of death involves deception by officialdom.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...cy-theoies

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 112748 08-18-2012 09:39 PM

Great post assuming you are a person.

Also PEOPLE AROUND HERE CANNOT READ THIS ENOUGH TIMES.

"On his Infowars.com Web site, Jones headlines his page with “Because There Is a War on for Your Mind.” True enough, which is why science and reason must always prevail over fear and irrationality, and conspiracy mongering traffics in the latter at the expense of the former."

**Devout Agnostic**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Great post assuming you are a person.

Also PEOPLE AROUND HERE CANNOT READ THIS ENOUGH TIMES.

"On his Infowars.com Web site, Jones headlines his page with “Because There Is a War on for Your Mind.” True enough, which is why science and reason must always prevail over fear and irrationality, and conspiracy mongering traffics in the latter at the expense of the former."

But what if scientists are in on it?

**Kanigo2** lop guest User ID: 97971 08-18-2012 09:48 PM

Social engineering was imported to America by Sigmund Freud's brother.

The entire concept of social engineering IS a conspiracy.

So I am now going to believe another psychiatrist going against the very subject he has studied for a career choice?

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Michael Brant Shermer, PhD (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic,[1] which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members.[2] Shermer also engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he promulgates the need for scientific skepticism.

Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family (now ABC Family) television series Exploring the Unknown. Since April 2001, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Shermer states he was once a fundamentalist Christian, but converted from a belief in God during his graduate studies, and has described himself as an agnostic,[3] nontheist,[4][5] atheist[6][7] and advocate for humanist philosophy[8] as well as the science of morality.[9] He has expressed reservations about such labels, however, as he sees them being used in the service of "pigeonholing", and prefers to simply be called a skeptic.[6]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 112748 08-18-2012 09:49 PM

Devout Agnostic Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Great post assuming you are a person.

Also PEOPLE AROUND HERE CANNOT READ THIS ENOUGH TIMES.

"On his Infowars.com Web site, Jones headlines his page with “Because There Is a War on for Your Mind.” True enough, which is why science and reason must always prevail over fear and irrationality, and conspiracy mongering traffics in the latter at the expense of the former."

But what if scientists are in on it?

Science does not belong to anyone, nor is it a group, and it is not being used in that way in the statement.

**Truth**

Kanigo2 Wrote:

Social engineering was imported to America by Sigmund Freud's brother.

The entire concept of social engineering IS a conspiracy.

So I am now going to believe another psychiatrist going against the very subject he has studied for a career choice?

Believe who you want, isn't free will great?

**Luvapottamus**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Great post assuming you are a person.

Also PEOPLE AROUND HERE CANNOT READ THIS ENOUGH TIMES.

"On his Infowars.com Web site, Jones headlines his page with “Because There Is a War on for Your Mind.” True enough, which is why science and reason must always prevail over fear and irrationality, and conspiracy mongering traffics in the latter at the expense of the former."

Yep they need to read it over and over again. Until it seems true.

chuckle

Otherwise they will read things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

and jump to bizarre conclusions like the Gulf of Tonkin was probably faked.

Oh wait...

Srjceahd

**Kanigo2** lop guest User ID: 97971 08-18-2012 09:51 PM

Truth Wrote:

Kanigo2 Wrote:
Social engineering was imported to America by Sigmund Freud's brother.

The entire concept of social engineering IS a conspiracy.

So I am now going to believe another psychiatrist going against the very subject he has studied for a career choice?

Believe who you want, isn't free will great?

i wasnt finished yet... go back up and read..

I concern myself with the SOURCE.

He also works for fox.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 112748 08-18-2012 09:52 PM

Kanigo2 Wrote:

Social engineering was imported to America by Sigmund Freud's brother.

The entire concept of social engineering IS a conspiracy.

So I am now going to believe another psychiatrist going against the very subject he has studied for a career choice?

Sigh......

See if you had read the very very small article you would have seen that he said nothing outlandish what so ever, none of it would require his psychiatry knowledge to come up.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 112748 08-18-2012 09:54 PM

Kanigo2 Wrote:

Truth Wrote:
Kanigo2 Wrote:
Social engineering was imported to America by Sigmund Freud's brother.

The entire concept of social engineering IS a conspiracy.

So I am now going to believe another psychiatrist going against the very subject he has studied for a career choice?

Believe who you want, isn't free will great?

i wasnt finished yet... go back up and read..

I concern myself with the SOURCE.

He also works for fox.

Again since the article is not really stating anything outlandish or trying to sway opinion i am not sure how the source really matters here.

**Kanigo2** lop guest User ID: 97971 08-18-2012 09:55 PM

I did.

Its Psychobabble, designed and written for one purpose, to sell magazines.

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 112591 08-18-2012 09:56 PM **Posts: 11,983**

Quote:....Physical facts are fairly uniform, but truth is a living and flexible factor in the philosophy of the universe...Divine truth, final truth, is uniform and universal, but the story of things spiritual, as it is told by numerous individuals hailing from various spheres, may sometimes vary in details owing to this relativity in the completeness of knowledge and in the repleteness of personal experience as well as in the length and extent of that experience....Truth is beautiful because it is both replete and symmetrical. When man searches for truth, he pursues the divinely real...

...The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love...

http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-stan...god#U2_7_0

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 115364 08-18-2012 09:58 PM

I believe conspiracies because I have uncovered a couple and now understand the way they were covered up in the first place. Once you have seen this at work you can see the same techniques (lies) been used around other events and occurrences and it makes me wonder what they are trying to hide. There is no particular psychological profile of a conspiracy theorist.

Some of us just know.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 114988 08-18-2012 10:00 PM

Truth Wrote:

The authors suggest there is a higher-order process at work that they call global coherence that overrules local contradictions: “Someone who believes in a significant number of conspiracy theories would naturally begin to see authorities as fundamentally deceptive, and new conspiracy theories would seem more plausible in light of that belief.” Moreover, “conspiracy advocates' distrust of official narratives may be so strong that many alternative theories are simultaneously endorsed in spite of any contradictions between them.” Thus, they assert, “the more that participants believe that a person at the centre of a death-related conspiracy theory, such as Princess Diana or Osama [bin] Laden, is still alive, the more they also tend to believe that the same person was killed, so long as the alleged manner of death involves deception by officialdom.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...cy-theoies

Ask scientificamerican what they think about Big Pharma.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 112748 08-18-2012 10:01 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Truth Wrote:
The authors suggest there is a higher-order process at work that they call global coherence that overrules local contradictions: “Someone who believes in a significant number of conspiracy theories would naturally begin to see authorities as fundamentally deceptive, and new conspiracy theories would seem more plausible in light of that belief.” Moreover, “conspiracy advocates' distrust of official narratives may be so strong that many alternative theories are simultaneously endorsed in spite of any contradictions between them.” Thus, they assert, “the more that participants believe that a person at the centre of a death-related conspiracy theory, such as Princess Diana or Osama [bin] Laden, is still alive, the more they also tend to believe that the same person was killed, so long as the alleged manner of death involves deception by officialdom.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...cy-theoies

Ask scientificamerican what they think about Big Pharma.

So because they might not agree with you regarding a subject anything written by anyone there is to be completely dismissed out of hand.

WTF, that is the exactly kind of tools you people claim the elites and shills use.