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Noun Concept
Categories: Conspiracy theories, Barriers to critical thinking, Articles with short description, Fringe theory, Pejoratives
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conspiracy theory  conspiracy Theories  The Conspiracy-Effect  Anti-conspiracionism  conspiracism
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A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable. Wikipedia
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A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable. Wikipedia
Allegation that a certain event or events are secretly influenced by a premeditated group or groups of powerful people or organizations working together. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Explanation that invokes a conspiracy Wikidata
A hypothesis alleging that the members of a coordinated group are, and/or were, secretly working together to commit illegal or wrongful actions including attempting to hide the existence of the group and its activities. In notable cases the hypothesis contradicts the mainstream explanation for historical or current events. Wiktionary
IS A
reductionism
pejorative
disinformation
misinformation
theory
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HAS PART
false flag
denialism
HAS KIND
9/11 conspiracy theories
UFO conspiracy theories
Jesuit conspiracy theories
deep state
Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories
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HAS INSTANCE
climate change conspiracy theory
Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory
well poisoning
climate change denial
Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory
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CONTRIBUTING FACTOR OF
2021 storming of the United States Capitol
DIFFERENT FROM
fringe theory
conspiracy fiction
HAS CAUSE
anxiety
self-love
paranoia
agent detection
schizotypy
HAS CONTRIBUTING FACTOR
alienation
fundamental attribution error
communal reinforcement
confirmation bias
attribution bias
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PARTIALLY COINCIDENT WITH
fringe theory
SIGNIFICANT PERSON
Popper
Murray Rothbard
Michael Barkun
Charles Astor Bristed
John Shelton Lawrence
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USED BY
Third Reich
Soviet Union
Timothy McVeigh
Anders Behring Breivik
Brenton Tarrant
USES
fallacy
projection
circular reasoning
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conspiracy theory
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conspiracy theory
Wiktionary
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conspiracy theory
Wikipedia Redirections
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Anti-conspiracionism, conspiracism, conspiracist, conspiracist ideation, Conspiracy-theory, Conspiracy analysts, conspiracy beliefs, conspiracy buff, Conspiracy culture, Conspiracy effect, Conspiracy nut, Conspiracy researchers, conspiracy theories, Conspiracy theorism, conspiracy theorist, conspiracy theorists, Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy theory of history, Conspiracy Theorys, Conspiranoia, Conspiratard, Conspiratards, conspiratorial, Conspiricy theory, conspirology, Cooker (slang), Dietrology, fusion paranoia, global conspiracy, It's a conspiracy, Paranoid conspiracy theory, Politics and Current Events, Psychological interpretations of conspiracy theories, Study of conspiracism, The conspiracy-effect, The Conspiracy-Effect, Truth seeker (term)
Wikidata Alias
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conspiracy Theories, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, conspiracy Theory, plot theory

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