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Part 3. Further analysis and discussion.

All right, it's our final instalment for our Conspiracy Theory's mini-series.

We really hope you've enjoyed it so fine.

We learn about the psychology and origins and philosophical mistakes the conspiracy theories make.

In this installment, we're going to put some flesh on the bones.

We're going to be giving some case studies, specifically the JFK case study,

talking about some of the alternative theories, i.e. conspiracy theories that are contrary

to the official or popular view. Before we do so, I think we should

raise the point that it's not the case that all conspiracy theories are equally absurd. And we

touched on that a little bit, I think in the first section. There's obviously a clear

difference between thinking that there's a group of shape-shifting aliens ruling the world

and thinking that Elvis Presley shot Tupac and Poisoned Descartes.

They're both, that's a bad example because they're both wacky beliefs.

Yeah, there's a big difference between them because the latter is obviously true

and then the former...

But I say that sounds pretty unlikely too there, Jeff.

Yeah. Who knew that Elvis was a time traveler?

Capable of such evil. We're actually going to start this particular bit at considering

Mick West's take on the reasonableness of different conspiracy theories. Mick West is famous

for kind of in the field of conspiracy theories and he's written a book called Escaping the Rabbit Hole,

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