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Why conspiracy claims spread, how their rhetoric works, and how to evaluate and respond without confusing a real institutional failure with a speculative total explanation.
Source-status rule
Conspiracy Theories contains a specific Nagasaki claim and a brief counter; Charlie Kirk - Conspiracy Claims and Promotion Source Audit is a broader claim-by-claim audit. Treat each allegation separately: the psychological mechanism in Conspiracy Seeding does not determine whether any individual factual claim is true.
Start with the Mechanism
- Conspiracy Theory Thinking · What is the psychology behind the people that seem to believe all conspiracy theories? — definitions and psychological explanations.
- Stickiness of Conspiratorial Thinking · Majority Illusion — persistence and social proof.
- Conspiracy Seeding · Useful tool for Division — how suggestive claims can travel politically.
Test the Claim
- Arguing against Conspiracy Thinking — argument tactics and evidential standards.
- falsifiability — what evidence would count against a theory?
- 60 Knowledge/60.3 Politics/60.3.13 - Conspiracy Thinking/Studies — research shelf, not a substitute for checking a particular allegation.
- Charlie Kirk - Conspiracy Claims and Promotion Source Audit · Conspiracy Theories — concrete cases.
- Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas — Sunstein’s legal and policy arguments about false and harmful beliefs.
Persuasion Without Concession
- How to Counter (Affirm Identity, Avoid Zero-Sum Threats) — identity-aware response ideas.
- Apophasis · Rhetorical Devices Comparison — rhetorical forms worth recognizing.
- Foolproof - Sander van der Linden · The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories - Jan-Willem Van Prooijen — book companions.
Cases and Boundaries
- Jeffrey Epstein — distinguish documented wrongdoing and open questions from unsupported extensions.
- Far Right & Woke Right (MOC) · Subversion & Demoralization — ideological and information-war overlap.
- Violence in Politics (MOC) — when threat narratives become a permission structure for harm.
Cross-vault
- 60.21 Psychology · 60.10 Argumentation — cognition and debate method.
- Cognitive Biases and Information Evaluation · Epistemology (MOC) — general source evaluation.
- 60.3.12 - Source Audits & Media — claim inventories, video dossiers, and source-provenance work.
Base index
60.3.13 - Conspiracy Thinking.base (file not included in this release)
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Conspiracy claims and information-literacy material
- Combatting Misinformation - Destiny's Notes — preserved working note or source capture
- Conspiracy Research - Bolsheviks were Jewish — preserved working note or source capture
- Grifters? — preserved working note or source capture
- Jewish Speech Laws — preserved working note or source capture
- Never Play Defense — preserved working note or source capture
- Predictive Programming — preserved working note or source capture
- Recruiting on the Third Rail — preserved working note or source capture
- Tucker Carlson Research Iraq Visit Claims — preserved working note or source capture
Auto-index
- Books
- 60.3.13 - Conspiracy Thinking (file not included in this release)
- Apophasis
- Arguing against Conspiracy Thinking
- Charlie Kirk - Conspiracy Claims and Promotion Source Audit
- Combatting Misinformation - Destiny's Notes
- Conspiracy Research - Bolsheviks were Jewish
- Conspiracy Seeding
- Conspiracy Theories
- Conspiracy Theory Thinking
- Conspiracy Thinking Base (file not included in this release)
- falsifiability
- Grifters?
- How to Counter (Affirm Identity, Avoid Zero-Sum Threats)
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Jewish Speech Laws
- Majority Illusion
- Never Play Defense
- Predictive Programming
- Recruiting on the Third Rail
- Rhetorical Devices Comparison
- Social Media Algorithm
- Stickiness of Conspiratorial Thinking
- Studies
- Tucker Carlson Research Iraq Visit Claims
- Useful tool for Division
- What is the psychology behind the people that seem to believe all conspiracy theories?