人类学家托德·桑德斯(Todd Sanders)和哈里·G·韦斯特(Harry G. West)表示,当今广泛的美国人对至少某些阴谋论有所信任。[25]例如,2016年进行的一项研究发现,有10%的美国人认为“化学眶密谋”理论是“完全正确的”,而20-30%的人则认为“完全正确”。[26]这使“有1.2亿美国人处于“化学制品是真实的”阵营中。[26]因此,对阴谋理论的信仰已成为社会学家,心理学家和民俗学专家感兴趣的话题。
另见
Cherry picking – Logical fallacy
Conspiracy fiction – Subgenre of thriller fiction
Fake news – Hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation
Fringe theory – idea or viewpoint which differs from the accepted scholarship in its field
Furtive fallacy
List of conspiracy theories – Wikimedia list article
List of fallacies
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
Occam's razor – Philosophical principle of selecting the solution with the fewest assumptions
Influencing machine
Philosophy of conspiracy theories
Propaganda – Form of communication intended to sway the audience through presenting only one side of the argument
Pseudohistory – Pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record
Pseudoscience – Unscientific claims that are wrongly presented as scientific
Superstition – belief or practice that is considered irrational or supernatural
Notes
Birchall 2006: "[W]e can appreciate conspiracy theory as a unique form of popular knowledge or interpretation, and address what this might mean for any knowledge we produce about it or how we interpret it."[36]:66
Birchall 2006: "What we quickly discover ... is that it becomes impossible to map conspiracy theory and academic discourse onto a clear illegitimate/legitimate divide."[36]:72
Barkun 2003: "The essence of conspiracy beliefs lies in attempts to delineate and explain evil. At their broadest, conspiracy theories 'view history as controlled by massive, demonic forces.' ... For our purposes, a conspiracy belief is the belief that an organization made up of individuals or groups was or is acting covertly to achieve a malevolent end."[61]
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