One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Accusations like conspiracy theories, words like disinformation and misinformation, these aren't words that are meant to guide you as to how much… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“The “They” was clear, not a worn-out conspiracy theory or fictional legend. “They” were the oligarchies that ran America, and, thanks to… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“And because people loved conspiracy theories even back then, suddenly everyone became a member of the Illuminati: Galileo, the Babylonian goddess Lilith,… — Ferdinand von Schirach Copy Share Image
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“1958, Fred Koch became one of eleven original members of the John Birch Society, the archconservative group best known for spreading far-fetched… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“According to Terry Nichols, that winter of 1995, in Junction City, Timothy McVeigh accidentally let slip his FBI handler’s name: “ Larry… — Margaret Roberts Copy Share Image
“If you do happen to find yourself partially believing a crazy theory, don’t worry—probably the evidence you encounter will be inconsistent with… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“From day one it was like society was this violent, complicated dance and everybody had taken lessons but me. Knocked to the… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories—feverishly creative, lovingly plotted—are in fact fictional stories that some people believe. Conspiracy theorists connect real data points and imagined data… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back… — Mondo Frazier Copy Share Image
“The current administration’s legal “Czar” who goes by the name Cass Sunstein was recently appointed to serve on the “NSA Oversight Panel”… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“So how can we determine what’s real and what’s not? We can’t. We can just pick and choose what we want to… — Richard B. Spence Copy Share Image
“it was the sudden, shocking exposure of actual conspiracies starting in the 1970s that made Americans overcorrect, to assume that anything bad… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories.… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Neither Marianne Williamson nor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ever held elected office. Williamson gained no traction during her 2020 presidential bid.… — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
“On November 10, 2001, Bush specifically denounced “outrageous conspiracy theories” dealing with the attacks. He couldn't have fanned the flames of the… — Monte Cook Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War,… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
The left has promoted some wild conspiracy theories - namely that Trump had been groomed for decades by the Russians, and then,… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide,… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, our country has been experiencing an “explosive growth in extremist-group activism across the United States”… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
“There is Normal Society and then there is the Abnormal Freaks Who Deserve Our Public Pity and Private Ridicule Society. The first… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories explaining the Bolshevik victory gained widespread credence: the most popular of these was that of international Jewish conspiracy, since Trotsky,… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Thistle flashes a wicked smile. "Oh, you haven't heard that one? The government struck a bargain with a cannibal, and they use… — Jack Heath Copy Share Image
I always say Manny [Ramirez] is a strange guy. Outwardly, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories… — Bronson Arroyo Copy Share Image
“There was enough intimidation, witness tampering and foul play to go around. Many books have been published about this subject, witnesses have… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“The scientific project starts by rejecting the fantasy of infallibility and proceeding to construct an information network that takes error to be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In South Africa, we have more political parties than we have in our social crisis. Yet none of our problems are being… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“The most obvious problem is that the freedom to post anything online floods the public square with bad information and half-baked thinking.… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“I believe that the Big-Bang Theory and the Evolution Theory, as well as Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory which does not allow for… — Dr. Takaaki Musha Copy Share Image
“Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Conspiracy theories are… — K. Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image