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The Guardian: Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 3543271  United States04/13/2016 02:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us Psychologists are trying to determine why otherwise rational individuals can make the leap from “prudent paranoia” to illogical conspiracy theories According to a Public Policy Polling survey, around 12 million people in the US believe that interstellar lizards in people suits rule our country. We imported that particular belief from across the pond, where professional conspiracy theorist David dIcke has long maintained that the Queen of England is a blood-drinking, shape-shifting alien. Conspiracy theories in general are not necessary bad, according to psychologists who study them. “If we were all completely trusting, it would not be good for survival,” explains Rob Brotherton, an academic psychologist and author of Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories. “Sometimes people really don’t have our best interests in mind.” But when people leap from thinking their boss is trying to undermine them to believing their boss might be a secret lizard person, they probably cross from what psychologists refer to as “prudent paranoia” into illogical territory. And there are a lot of illogical ideas to pick from. Around 66 million Americans believe that aliens landed at Roswell, New Mexico; around 22 million people believe that the government faked the moon landing; and around 160 million believe that there is a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of former US president John F Kennedy. [link to www.theguardian.com]   |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 3543271 United States04/13/2016 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The rest of the article is mostly the typical mainstream commentary of: "Crazy, right? Why do people believe these illogical crazy things? Here are some stupid academic talking heads telling you why we should trust everyone and why there is no such thing as organized crime." But, it is always interesting to see this things printed in MSM, and the survey numbers are fascinating and kind of a pleasant surprise!  |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 3543271 United States04/13/2016 02:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is a link with more info on the original survey: [link to www.thewire.com] Oddly enough, it is actually from 2013. So, I'm not sure why The Guardian is reporting on it now, but still interesting....  |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 3543271 United States04/13/2016 02:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is probably going to look like crap.... Conspiracy Percent believing Number of Americans believing JFK was killed by conspiracy 51 percent 160,096,160 Bush intentionally misled on Iraq WMDs 44 percent 138,122,178 Global warming is a hoax 37 percent 116,148,195 Aliens exist 29 percent 91,035,072 New World Order 28 percent 87,895,931 Hussein was involved in 9/11 28 percent 87,895,931 A UFO crashed at Roswell 21 percent 65,921,948 Vaccines are linked to autism 20 percent 62,782,808 The government controls minds with TV 15 percent 47,087,106 Medical industry invents diseases 15 percent 47,087,106 CIA developed crack 14 percent 43,947,966 Bigfoot exists 14 percent 43,947,966 Obama is the Antichrist 13 percent 40,808,825 The government allowed 9/11 11 percent 34,530,544 Fluoride is dangerous 9 percent 28,252,264 The moon landing was faked 7 percent 21,973,983 Bin Laden is alive 6 percent 18,834,842 Airplane contrails are sinister chemicals 5 percent 15,695,702 McCartney died in 1966 5 percent 15,695,702 Lizard people control politics 4 percent 12,556,562 |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 3543271 United States04/13/2016 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents believe in the New World Order threat compared to just 15% of Democrats." |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 3543271 United States04/13/2016 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The poll finds 28% of voters believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3543271 conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents believe in the New World Order threat compared to just 15% of Democrats."  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 53869156 Canada04/13/2016 04:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The poll finds 28% of voters believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3543271 conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents believe in the New World Order threat compared to just 15% of Democrats." Interesting. Honest I thought the numbers might be higher. like 50+% for Reps+Independants 25-30 % for Dems. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 3543271 United States04/13/2016 04:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The poll finds 28% of voters believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3543271 conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents believe in the New World Order threat compared to just 15% of Democrats." Interesting. Honest I thought the numbers might be higher. like 50+% for Reps+Independants 25-30 % for Dems. This was as of Spring 2013, as it turns out, so I suspect the numbers have increased since then, probably quite a bit... I honestly wouldn't have guessed that more than 1-in-4 people believe/are aware of the concept of the New World Order! Most people I try to talk to about this stuff outside of the internet are completely oblivious, as far as I can tell...... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 67079766 United States04/13/2016 08:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The poll finds 28% of voters believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3543271 conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents believe in the New World Order threat compared to just 15% of Democrats." |
