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The television show Mythbusters did a special where they tested the moon landing conspiracy theories. There are also many books and websites which also deal with the subject.

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What is the Name of the group of people accused of ruling the world I think it starts with a b?

There are a lot of conspiracy theories on this question, but you might be reffering to the Free Masons, The Priory of Sion or the Knights Templar.


Conspiracy is a very Common Form of Political behavior?

we feel more comfortable when our experiences fall into some sort of order or comprehensible structure or can be explained clearly. That is why we turn to faith, to feelings and to conspiracy theories if some kind of political response is involved. At various levels of plausibility, we are willing to believe rigged elections, faked landing on the moon, oil companies/big pharmaceuticals/big corporations in general working overtime against interests of the common man, government covering up the foreign incursions or conflict among various members of the Cabinet and a dark hand swinging the stock up and down on the Wall Street or Dalal Street. We are inclined to take the conspiratorial view of political events without much proof because some of them make rational sense, even without visible smoking guns. It is only human to hold emotional beliefs and unprovable theories. At times it makes one feel guilty as political stories are without evidence, but still they are logically possible and even very probable. Conspiracies, real or imagined, are not new. In classical times, Athens accused Socrates of conspiring to introduce new gods and corrupting the youth of the city. Ancient Rome was a hotbed of conspiracy and political assassination. Roman Church and European Kings and Dukes were perpetually conspiring against each other until Napoleon decisively cut the Pope to size. However, a distinction needs to be made between conspiracy and conspiracy theory. A conspiracy is an event (or series of events) that has actually taken place. A ‘conspiracy theory’ is a belief in a conspiracy that may or may not have taken place. Conspiracy theories or theoretical conspiracies usually have an ideological basis that could be political or religious. Since modern politics derives from European history, it will be appropriate to cite a few examples from European history. For example, alleged papal plots against Protestant Europe from the Counter-Reformation onwards were universally believed. In the 17th century witchcraft conspiracy theories prevailed. Freemasons, Jews, Fabians, ‘One World Government’ supporters (whoever they might be), Communists, Small Greys (aliens), the KGB, the CIA and/or the US government were and are still to some extent suspect in the eyes of some people for conspiring to take over the entire world order. We are constantly beset by conspiracy theories and a ‘respectable’ literature of conspiracy theory has evolved and serious research is going on conspiracy theory. Seminars and conferences on conspiracy theory are held from time to time. Among the important and high profile conspiracy theories is the longstanding J.F. Kennedy set of theories of varying levels of credibility—about why and how he was killed; by contract killers hired by Cubans or the Mafia. Now several theories have emerged about 9/11. One intriguing 9/11 suggestion throws up an Israeli government connection because, as the theorist says, “only the Israelis were clever enough to make it work.” The plethora of such ‘theories’ has generated its own literature, including Richard Hofstadter’s influential The Paranoid Style in American Politics and other Essays, first published in 1964, after JFK’s assassination, and still in circulation. Hofstadter, a critic of conservative Americans, argued that assassination was a ‘recessive gene’ in US politics. Conferences on conspiracy theory have led to two developments: the academic view that conspiracy theories deserve serious study and examination as social/cultural phenomena and, that some conspiracy theories might have a basis in evidence. For instance, a two-day session at the University of London’s Birkbeck College in 2001, on conspiracy theories, the topics included: The popularity of conspiracy theory as a mode of explanation; Did the supposedly scientific and rational thought of the Enlightenment, or other intellectual movements, undermine the foundations upon which these theories were constructed, or did they merely alter their forms? Why were witches, heretics and religious minorities perceived in conspiratorial terms? Why was the outbreak of the French Revolution frequently explained in conspiratorial terms, and why did European rulers and their subjects remain obsessed with conspiracies both real and imagined? For the classroom teacher, conspiracy theories can be both pleasant and unpleasant distraction. A teacher recalls a most enjoyable though very heated debate in his history class, about Roswell and Area 51 (US government/alien conspiracy), which had nothing to do with the French Revolution that he was supposed to be teaching to that class, but it led to an intense discussion about assessment of evidence. The US lecturer Marcus LiBrizzi uses conspiracy theories to motivate his students. However, classroom discussion involving conspiracy theories needs careful preparation because of the intricacy and complexity of many of the theories. The greatest problem with conspiracy theories is their shifting grounds, mainly because there is usually great eagerness amongst advocates of conspiracy theories to mistake coincidence for conspiracy and they are difficult to prove/disprove. For example, as a sceptic, one might say, ‘JFK was NOT KILLED by a second shooter on the grassy knoll.’ But how to prove it? Then, most conspiracy theories are wrapped in circular logic. Typically, the arguments go: ‘Freemasons secretly control the world.’ ‘But there’s no evidence that they control the world.’ ‘That’s because they are doing it in secret!’ Or, ‘Yasser Arafat did not die of natural causes. He was poisoned’. This despite no evidence of poisoning in a 500-page post-mortem medical file of the concerned French medical authorities. The conspiracy theorists would say that the French medical authorities tested only for KNOWN poisons and Arafat was killed by an UNKNOWN poison. Circular logic! Conspiracy theories especially attract the adolescents (and delayed adolescents), because they appear more colourful than a fact-based alternative. That JFK was killed by a whole host of assassins and conspirators rather than by a solitary gunman is surely more raving; and so is to believe that Harold Holt was spying for the Chinese and was whisked away by a Chinese submarine instead of drowning in the surf. Thriller writers know the emotional lift of gaining ‘inside knowledge’ and use the clandestine nature of their narrative to make the reader feel as an ‘insider’ in their esoteric world. Dan Brown, in his The Da Vinci Code [2004], uses this factor most effectively and succeeds in turning a badly written book into a best seller.


Did the mob kill John F. Kennedy?

John F Kennedy was murdered, most likely by a lone gunman who was deranged. There are many conspiracy theories about the people who might have been behind the murder.


Why do scientific ideas change?

Scientific information constantly changes as new information is discovered or as previous hypotheses are retested. New information can lead to changes in scientific theories. When new facts are revealed, a current scientific theory might be revised to include the new facts, or it might be disproved and rejected.


What is a hypothesis students might form?

Theories


What does conspiracy mean in science?

Conspiracy means in science when there's something that's an idea that might not be true , E.G:The Big Bang Theory , Scientist's theory is that the world was created by it & other religons might not believe this .


How are conspiracy theories used?

The big problem is that conspiracy theory is used in two different ways. The first is as a conspiracy theory, which refers to to an explanation that invokes a conspiracy. Although some authors say that the invoked conspiracy is nonexistent, I think it is more appropriate for most cases to say that the conspiracy is unproven. The second use of conspiracy theory is generic, referring to the act of appealing to, or the tendency to appeal to, undocumented conspiracy and continuing to appeal to it for years to centuries without documentation. Unfortunately, this generic use is seldom defined. Readers have to figure it out for themselves. We might also note that the theory in conspiracy theory is used incorrectly. At least in the scientific world, a theory is is an advanced stage of explanation, an idea that was first proposed as a hypothesis, then rose to the level of working hypothesis, and then survived enough tests to ultimately be taken very seriously and regarded as the best explanation. A conspiracy theory usually shares none of these characteristics. By its very nature, it is undocumentable, and hence represents the earliest stage of explanation. It should probably be called a conspiracy hypothesis. But even this term is too strong, because it is an idea that has failed the test of finding concrete evidence for it. Whatever term is appropriate, it is not conspiracy theory.


What is the central conflict in freak the might?

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How might the pilot exult after landing safely?

An exultant feelIng sweeps over you as you roll down the runway and come to a stop


Are conspiracy theories good or bad?

It depends on their purpose. Is it to harm someone who has done nothing wrong, like the Blood Libel? Is it to deflect blame from the guilty you like, to the innocent you don't, like blaming 9/11 on Bush instead of anti-Jewish middle eastern terrorists? Is it to pretend you know more than real scientists, photographers, and other experts, like the "Apollo was a hoax" nonsense "theory"? Some conspiracy theories are written by good people who are warning people of bad things that might happen, often they do that to outwit the conspiracy, to prevent further horrible things happening, for the benefit or for the betterment of mankind and all Life on Earth. The theories are warnings. Some of the theories were actions foreseen 2,000 years ago by St John the Divine who saw the future, some of his Prophesies are about these days. He was one of the very best and finest of all Prophets, a good man and kind to others. He always did what God wanted him to do, regardless of all else.


What does imbao mean in a text?

If the texter watches NHK the animation he might mean conspiracy (inbo) in romaji