| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I. "If you only assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself." 1. From alien shape-shifting lizards to the dodgy dossier / M R.X. Dentith -- 2. The greatest consiracy theory movies / Mark Huston -- 3. Everyone's a conspiracy theorist / Charles Pigden -- 4. How to build a conspiracy theory / David Kyle Johnson -- 5. How fallacies fuel conspiracies / David Kyle Johnson |
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Part II. "It's who's controlling the Illuminati that I'm more concerned about." 6. Falling off the edge of the Earth / Courtland Lewis and Gregory L. Bock -- 7. That's- one giant joke on mankind? / Jeff Cervantes -- 8. Witch hunts / Alexander E. Hooke -- 9. Racial genocide theories / Rod Carveth -- 10. Do climate skeptics have to be conspiracy theorists? / Don Falls |
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Part III. "The best kept secrets are those in plain sight." 11. Are collectives more conspiratorial than individuals? / Eduardo Vincentini de Medeiros and Marco Antonio Azevedo -- 12. Here's the secret on voter fraud- it's complicated / Gary Johnson -- 13. Vaccination, Autism, and trust / Kendal Beazer -- 14. Leninism, astroturfing, and conservatism / Daniel Krasner -- 15. Elders and brothers / Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari |
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Part IV. "The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally." 16. The defining conspiracy / James Rocha and Mona Rocha -- 17. Should you be wearing a tinfoil hat? / Michael Goldsby and W. John Koolage -- 18. The wrong thinking in conspiracy theories / Brendan Shea -- 19. How can I say this without sounding crazy? / Paul Lewis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed December 5, 2019) |
| Subject |
Conspiracy theories -- Philosophy
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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Philosophy.
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philosophy.
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Philosophy
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Truthfulness and falsehood
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Greene, Richard, editor.
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Robison-Greene, Rachel, 1983- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780812694833 |
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081269483X |
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