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Conspiracism

Conspiracism is a narrative form of scapegoating that portrays an enemy as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good. Conspiracism assigns tiny cabals of evildoers a superhuman power to control events, frames social conflict as part of a transcendent struggle between Good and Evil, and makes leaps of logic, such as guilt by association, in analyzing evidence. Conspiracists often employ common fallacies of logic in analyzing factual evidence to assert connections, causality, and intent that are frequently unlikely or nonexistent. As a distinct narrative form of scapegoating, conspiracism uses demonization to justify constructing the scapegoats as wholly evil while reconstructing the scapegoater as a hero.

Conspiracism Overview Pages:

• Conspiracism - Topic Portal Page {you are here}
• Conspiracism as a Flawed Worldview An Introduction with Links
• Conspiracist Episodes in the U.S. 1797-2001
• Automatic Conspiracy Theory Generator
• Onlide Slide Show: Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium
• New Internationalist PRA Supplement: Conspiracism

Conspiracism: Post 9/11 Collection

• 9/11: Conspiracism
• Dubious Claims about the 9/11 Attacks. A Review of The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin
  • Response by David Ray Griffin
  • Transcript of the the Democracy Now Program of May 25, 2004 on claims in the Griffin Book
  • Audio of the Democracy Now debate
  • FAQ - Resulting from the Democracy Now Program
• 9/11: General Conspiracist Views Shortly After the Attack An Archive
  • Antisemitic Conspiracist Views
  • Hard Right Views. (including Patriot & militia movement)
  • Fascist Right Views. (Extreme Right)

The Sucker Punch Collection

• The Sucker Punch Series - Introduction
• Conspiracism as a form of Scapegoating
• Buchanan, Fulani, Perot, & the Reform Party
• Lenora Fulani and the Politics of Opportunism
• Right Wing Populism
• Right Wing Anti-Globalism

Other Websites Debunking Conspiracism

• Debunking the Federal Reserve Conspiracy Theories
  by Edward Flaherty (Visit his website)
• Debunking Conspiracy Myths
  by Damien Falgoust
• Floodlight
  by Gerry Rough
• Facts about freemasonry and anti-masonry points of view
  by Ed King
• Criticisms of Freemasonry & Where to Find Refutations of those Criticisms
  by Paul M. Bessel
• The Tax Protestor FAQ - Daniel B. Evans

More Resources from PRA/PublicEye:

• Conspiracism and "Secret Elites"
• Conspiracism as Parody of Institutional Analysis
• The Political Assumptions of Conspiracism
• Scapegoating in the Political Process  
• Dynamics of Demonization, Scapegoating, & Conspiracism Table of Contents  
• Critiques of Antisemitic conspiracist David Icke - including articles by Will Offley
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by Diana Reynolds - an example of power structure research without conspiracism
• Research Skills, Logic, & Propaganda

Related Pages:

• Illuminati Freemason Conspiracist Allegations / Short Overview
• The Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion / Short Overview
• Clinton, Conspiracism, & Civil Society
• The X-Files: Conspiracy Theory for Fun, not False Prophets
• Rightist Media & Conspiracism
• Sources of Hard Right Conspiracism
• John Birch Society
• Liberty Lobby & the Spotlight Newspaper
• Roots of the Freemason & Illuminati Conspiracist Allegations
• Protocols of the Leaned Elders of Zion (the forged hoax document)
• Spooky Journalistic Sources & Conspiracist Theories - Columbia journalism Review
• Conspiracy? Not Again by Michael Albert
• Waco, the FBI, & Conspiracy Theories
• Dances with Devils by Chip Berlet
• Behind the Culture War to Restore Traditional Values [very long] (Chip Berlet & Margaret Quigley)