Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. — Henry Louis Gates 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
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
“And even if there were souls, and there was a devil, he's not going around granting fame and fortune just for your… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
I believed excessively in Conspiracy Theories - though maybe not as much as the U.S. government does. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories, by contrast, are frustrating precisely because they are so intricate. Each rejoinder or contradiction only produces a more complicated theory.… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
There's so many Twitter conspiracy theories. I only look at alien-conspiracy theories. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
“As philosopher Brian Keeley has pointed out, by weaving every niggling anomaly into a grand unifying theory, conspiracy theories can look stronger… — Rob Brotherton Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories.” — Sam Harris 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
“While those attracted to the Kochs’ meetings were uniformly conservative, they were not the predictable cartoon villains of conspiracy theories but spanned… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is they think 'conspiracy' means everybody's on the same program. That's not how it works.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Most conspiracy theories seem psychotic to the nature of politics because in essence they go against popular opinion. — Jeremy Limn 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
“Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the… — James Shelby Downard Copy Share Image
Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“The internet would seem an antidote to conspiracy theories and state secrecy, but it has only amplified both.” — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
