Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us - page 2.

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Quote from: Slowturtleinc on April 07, 2016, 06:57:13 PM

You think about what a short life span this story has had and how many people will swear that it is true. Now look at the bible. Cool

We love a good story and this one feeds on why a lot of disenfranchised people are not getting ahead in life. Blame the Lizards!

Yes. Great way to distract people. Doesn't let them look at the source of their problems. Makes people who believe in it look crazy. And separates them from rest of society. And better, it's a self defeating belief because it would be something they couldn't control. Gods, aliens or other supernatural creatures.

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You think about what a short life span this story has had and how many people will swear that it is true. Now look at the bible. Cool

We love a good story and this one feeds on why a lot of disenfranchised people are not getting ahead in life. Blame the Lizards!

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Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/07/conspiracy-theory-paranoia-aliens-illuminati-beyonce-vaccines-cliven-bundy-jfk

<< According to a Public Policy Polling survey, around 12 million people in the US believe that interstellar lizards in people suits rule our country. We imported that particular belief from across the pond, where professional conspiracy theorist David Icke has long maintained that the Queen of England is a blood-drinking, shape-shifting alien.

Conspiracy theories in general are not necessary bad, according to psychologists who study them. "If we were all completely trusting, it would not be good for survival", explains Rob Brotherton, an academic psychologist and author of Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories. "Sometimes people really don't have our best interests in mind".

But when people leap from thinking their boss is trying to undermine them to believing their boss might be a secret lizard person, they probably cross from what psychologists refer to as "prudent paranoia" into illogical territory.

And there are a lot of illogical ideas to pick from. Around 66 million Americans believe that aliens landed at Roswell, New Mexico; around 22 million people believe that the government faked the moon landing; and around 160 million believe that there is a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of former US president John F Kennedy. >>

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