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What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular?

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What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular?
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RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular?
April 10, 2015 at 11:44 am
(April 10, 2015 at 9:13 am)Iroscato Wrote: So what do we call people who believe that Nibiru is coming to eat the Earth, or that the Moon or the entire sky is just a hologram? They go beyond simple conspiracy theorists who are already synonymous with crazy, and 'nutcases' hardly does justice to their beautiful insanity...

Kooks.  We call them kooks.

Or crackpots.  Yeah, crackpots.  Tongue
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What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular?

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What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Nope - April 10, 2015 at 7:34 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Dystopia - April 10, 2015 at 7:37 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by C4RM5 - April 10, 2015 at 7:42 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Alex K - April 10, 2015 at 8:09 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Chad32 - April 10, 2015 at 8:09 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Bad Wolf - April 10, 2015 at 8:28 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Alex K - April 10, 2015 at 8:30 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Bad Wolf - April 10, 2015 at 9:37 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Iroscato - April 10, 2015 at 8:39 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Dystopia - April 10, 2015 at 8:51 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Iroscato - April 10, 2015 at 9:13 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Jackalope - April 10, 2015 at 11:44 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Alex K - April 10, 2015 at 10:16 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Cato - April 10, 2015 at 6:48 pm
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Lucanus - April 11, 2015 at 3:44 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by urlawyer - April 11, 2015 at 4:45 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by professor - April 10, 2015 at 10:27 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Alex K - April 10, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Jenny A - April 10, 2015 at 10:40 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Dystopia - April 10, 2015 at 10:41 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Alex K - April 10, 2015 at 11:12 am
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by abaris - April 10, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Exian - April 10, 2015 at 1:18 pm
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by FreeTony - April 10, 2015 at 1:32 pm
RE: What Makes Conspiracy Theories Popular? - by Bad Wolf - April 10, 2015 at 8:50 pm

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