Snopes Takes A Meta-Level Look At Conspiracy Theories

Illustration Blowup https://visual.ly/community/infographic/history/united-states-conspiracy A coincidence too far. One way conspiracy theorists go wrong is by imbuing random facts and coincidences with a significance they don’t deserve. Take a new left-wing conspiracy theory linking Vladimir Putin’s (alleged) daughter to mysterious Internet traffic between servers owned by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, a bank in Russia, and a healthcare company owned by the husband of Trump’s future education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in 2016. Come to find out, that same healthcare company owns a hospital that has an endocrinology department AND Vladimir Putin’s (alleged) daughter is -- get this -- an endocrinologist! The details are far too intricate and tortuous for us to go into all of them here, but suffice it to say that Putin’s (alleged) daughter’s cover is blown. Read More CONSPIRACY - CONSPIRACISM Compendium Of Pax Posts: Persuading A Loved One That His Conspiracism Is Mostly Crazy http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/compendium-of-pax-posts-trying-to.html My Friends' Devoted Conspiracism Is As Crazy As Trump's Birtherism. What To Do With Lunacy? http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-friends-devoted-conspiracism-is-as.html Harvey/Irma Hurricane Conspiracy Reveals The Idiocy Of Most Conspiracism http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/harvey-and-irma-hurricane-conspiracy.html Ongoing Correspondence With A Conspiracist Friend Re: The "Staged" Slaughter At Sandy Hook http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/ongoing-correspondence-with.html "More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/more-on-newtown-massacre-professor.html "Who Killed Sister Cathy?" Tom Nugent http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/who-killed-sister-cathy-tom-nugent.html How Rochester, New York Detective Fantigrossi "Leaned On Me" To Identify The Wrong Man http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-rochester-new-york-detective.html The Thinking Housewife's Conspiracism: Exploring The Falsehood http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-thinking-housewifes-conspiracism.html Discussion With 9/11 Truther Friend About Epistemology, Belief, Certainty And Purpose http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/05/discussion-with-911-truther-friend.html The 9/11 Truth Movement: Where Does It Lead? http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-911-truth-movement-where-does-it.html "More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/more-on-newtown-massacre-professor.html Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/conspiracy-thinking-death-of-shared.html "Crisis Acting": A Standard Conspiracist Hoax That Supposedly Reveals Hoaxes (Snopes) http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/07/crisis-acting-hoax-that-supposedly.html The Daily Show Goes To Trump Rally To Hear Conspiracy Theories: They Are Not Disappointed http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-daily-show-goes-to-trump-rally-to.html "More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/more-on-newtown-massacre-professor.html Trump Resurrects Clinton-Foster Murder Conspiracy http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/trump-resurrects-clinton-foster-murder.html