Thursday, March 22, 2012

On conspiracy theories

Click here to access article by Julien Febvre from Eagainst. 

Separating out fact from fiction in conspiracy propaganda can be very challenging. The problem is that conspiracists always use mostly real facts within which they plant seeds of misinformation, irrational fear, and misdirected anger. Because of an almost total lack of training in critical thinking, many Americans are fairly easy prey to such propaganda.