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Believing conspiracy theories might make you a criminal: study
New York Post ^

Posted on 02/27/2019 6:32:51 AM PST by MNDude

Go figure: If you’re a birther or a 9/11 denier, chances are you aren’t much fun to be around. Sure, we’ve been saying this about our wack-job uncle for years — but now it’s backed up by science.

With contemporary conspiracy theories targeting everything from myths surrounding the Mueller report to the chilling “secret” behind Disney’s “Frozen,” this cultural phenomenon is certainly ripe for clinical exploration.

As such, the new study measured participants’ “belief in general notions of conspiracy” as well as how much they agreed with specific theories (“There was an official campaign by MI6 to assassinate Princess Diana”). Those inclined to believe the theories were “more accepting of everyday crime,” such as demanding a refund for no appropriate reason.

In addition, exposure to conspiracy theories was found to make people more apt to engage in low-level criminal activity. Researchers found that this tendency was “directly linked to an individual’s feeling of a lack of social cohesion or shared values, known as anomie.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 911truther; birther; chat; criminals; flatearther; moonlandinghoax; qanon; scientism
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To: Big Red Badger

LOL. And he lives down the street from us!

I too believe in some conspiracies - but I don’t focus my discussions around them 24/7.

“Boy - it sure is snowing hard!”

“Yeah. It reminds me of the ash falling from the Trade Towers. That was an inside job you know and the government is behind it because they wanted it to lead to a one world government which begins with survelliance of everybody which is what Bush got which is why they blew up the towers because a plane crashing into one wouldn’t be hot enough to melt the steel because.......”


81 posted on 02/27/2019 2:01:55 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: 21twelve

9/11 was an inside job, you know. Dick Cheney’s Katrina Hurricane Machine was set to emit fire and aircraft holograms to fool us all into thinking terrorists flew planes into those structures. Because Bush hates black people and stuff.

It’s true! Look it up!


82 posted on 02/27/2019 2:08:13 PM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
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To: GraceG

4. The links between the 93 attack and the 01 attacks and who the hell ignored them when they shouldn’t have.

In the days and weeks after the 93 attack, Rick Rescorla got together with his former military buddies - Rick thought the next attack would be via airplanes hitting the buildings. He was in charge of security for one of the big firms in the WTC.

Rick is the one on the cover of the book “We Were Soldiers Once and Young”. He was a hero in that battle, and was a hero on 9-11.

He had planned for the attack for years and ran simulations quite often - much to the dismay of the office workers.

When the first plane hit the other building and his building was told to stay inside, he was already getting his people down the stairs. IIRC, all the employees got out. Rick then worked on getting other floors evacuated.

The last anyone saw of him he was running up the stairs to get more people out.


83 posted on 02/27/2019 2:10:36 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: ScottinVA

Airman,
Here’s a red pill to help you become better informed beyond official MSM narratives.
Mighty coincidental that:
NORAD & Pentagon would be conducting air attack simulation exercises on 9-11 that are later blamed for causing timely intercept hijacked planes failure...
And, FEMA & NYC Emergency Services
would be conducting Mass Casualty Emergency simulation exercises on Sept 11, 2001...

The following has official transcripts and simulation exercise NORAD - Flight tower recordings.
https://www.corbettreport.com/911wargames/


84 posted on 02/27/2019 2:14:33 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

First off, it’s SMSgt. And having been in the military during that time, I had access to classified briefings and other information wayyyy beyond anything you or 99.9% of Americans could ever hope to see. So, please spare me the noise about “red pills” and laughable attempts to “increase my knowledge.” I learned far too much in my months of 12 hours on-12 hours off shifts at the Air Combat Command Crisis Action Team to accede to the ruminations of breathless conspiracy enthusiasts who find themselves too bored with the truth to accept it.

So.. over and out.. have a nice rest of your day.


85 posted on 02/27/2019 3:12:26 PM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
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To: ScottinVA

US airman patriot Scott, you have very good intellect and reading comprehension.

You do the research and reading.

Not everything is Occam’s razor simple.

DJT didn’t believe the 9-11 Commission report’s conclusions.
Talk to him about it.

Go ahead and read what 3100 commercial building architects, structural engineers, material science professors, factual state:
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth | WTC Twin Towers and ...
https://www.ae911truth.org/

Hint:
All wars ultimately benefit the bankers.
This has been true going back 400 years+
WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and many other major conflicts.

I’ll help you out -
Multi-national Geopolitical-Geoeconomic Deep State act on ambitions for consolidation of power by executing planned terrorist attack in order to result in public outrage and support for a decade+ Middle East war that makes HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS for Military Industrial Complex Defense contractors and financiers.
Read “War is a Racket”

U.S. Petro-dollar, debt based economy and fiat currency is preserved.
Subsequent Middle East war refugees flood europe by the Millions to culturally enrich / destablize the EU.
US Patriot Act 1 & 2, and 2012 NDAA greatly diminish US Constitution protections, and citizens become evermore demoralized and apathetic.
Ever weakened USA is a diminished threat to world progress plans.
Mission accomplished.


86 posted on 02/27/2019 3:12:28 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: RedStateRocker

“Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html

If it’s “peer reviewed”, check again and again and again.


87 posted on 02/27/2019 3:49:42 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: RedStateRocker

List of scholarly publishing stings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_stings


88 posted on 02/27/2019 3:50:33 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Something can be peer-reviewed but still inaccurate.

However something that is NOT peer reviewed cannot possibly be accepted as accurate. It’s a ‘necessary’, but not ‘sufficient’. condition.

Anything not testable, repeatable and quantifiable belongs in a church, mosque or temple.


89 posted on 02/27/2019 4:47:26 PM PST by RedStateRocker
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To: RedStateRocker

With enough qualification, you and I will eventually agree. ;-)


90 posted on 02/27/2019 5:04:36 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: MNDude; null and void

Well, more like a thought criminal, anyhow.


91 posted on 02/27/2019 5:13:13 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

92 posted on 02/27/2019 5:15:19 PM PST by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: null and void

That’s how a conspiracy works!

Them boys on the grassy knoll?

They were dead within 3 hours!

Buried in the desert, unmarked graves, out past Terlingua!


93 posted on 02/27/2019 5:23:59 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: little jeremiah

lock me up! lock me up!”

lol!


94 posted on 02/27/2019 6:19:30 PM PST by bitt (Is the PAIN coming???)
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To: subterfuge
I'm not a flat-earther, but let's just say tomorrow somebody proves it's flat. Then what? Who cares? Seriously, what would change? I'm thinking the world would utter a collective "...Meh, who knew?" and proceed with life as it has since the (flat/round/rhombicdodecahedron)Earth began.

...just some random thoughts after a Knob Hill on ice...

95 posted on 02/27/2019 7:24:33 PM PST by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: D_Idaho
Hussein's birth place is almost irrelevant.

His parentage however disqualifies his eligibility for POTUS, making him criminal patsy numero uno! Piglousy is criminal patsy numero two.

96 posted on 02/27/2019 8:47:25 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: ScottinVA

Really? Yeah it was mudslimes, but they are just lil murder muppets. It don’t take a whole lot to turn them mohomicidal.


97 posted on 02/27/2019 9:05:09 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: rawcatslyentist

Right, no doubt they’re murder puppets; the point is they were bin Laden’s murder puppets.


98 posted on 02/28/2019 5:04:18 AM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
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To: SaveFerris

Oh no. That one is, definitely true!


99 posted on 02/28/2019 6:25:18 AM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: pigsmith

If it were proven the earth is flat, I’d be heading out to find the earth’s edge.


100 posted on 02/28/2019 7:54:25 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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