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Is the conspiracy theory damaging our public discourse?

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · A bit of politics, Conspiracy theories

This blog and its management have always been extremely interested in the conspiracy theory phenomenon. Here’s an interesting link to an article by Frank Furedi on Spiked Online analysing the subject. In it he claims that the whole thing stems from anti-intellectualism and a return to primitive beliefs in evil forces beyond the control of humanity but still able to control their fate.

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