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A '''Conspiracy Theorist''' is a person or persons who subscribe to generally marginal explanations for all kinds of events, natural and man-made, that differ from mainstream explanations, both [[scientific]] and theoretical, in that they usually posit conspiratorial plots and cover-ups to explain those events. | A '''Conspiracy Theorist''' is a person or persons who subscribe to generally marginal explanations for all kinds of events, natural and man-made, that differ from mainstream explanations, both [[scientific]] and theoretical, in that they usually posit conspiratorial plots and cover-ups to explain those events. | ||
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| + | ==Origin of the Term== | ||
| + | During the 1960's there was skepticism that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was solely behind the assassination of John F Kennedy. In order to control the public, the [[CIA]] distributed a secret memo to all of its field offices requesting that they enlist assets in the media to ridicule and attack critics as "Conspiracy Theorists". <ref>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-how-the-cia-invented-conspiracy-theories/</ref> | ||
[[Category:Sociology]] | [[Category:Sociology]] | ||
Revision as of 18:11, January 30, 2021
A Conspiracy Theorist is a person or persons who subscribe to generally marginal explanations for all kinds of events, natural and man-made, that differ from mainstream explanations, both scientific and theoretical, in that they usually posit conspiratorial plots and cover-ups to explain those events.
Origin of the Term
During the 1960's there was skepticism that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was solely behind the assassination of John F Kennedy. In order to control the public, the CIA distributed a secret memo to all of its field offices requesting that they enlist assets in the media to ridicule and attack critics as "Conspiracy Theorists". [1]