More on Conspiracy Theories

Source: Skeptic magazine.

The latest issue of "Skeptic" magazine has another good selection of articles about conspiracy theories. Why, after all, would anybody believe that everybody is secretly governed by an "admiralty court" or that everybody was just given $600,000 in their "birth bond" account - and then the government denies it? Why the magical thinking? The reason is that conspiracy theories do not tell us things that are logical. They tell us things that we want to believe. An excellent primer on the subject is here, from the same publisher.