Skeptoid #264: Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Crazy
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2011
⏱️ 14 minutes
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We usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story.
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| 0:00.0 | When someone asks me what's the most far out conspiracy theory I've heard of, they always |
| 0:08.1 | use the word crazy. |
| 0:10.2 | What's the craziest conspiracy theory? |
| 0:12.6 | Well, I've got to answer honestly, I don't believe any of them are crazy. |
| 0:18.2 | Conspiracy theories are one artifact of the brain functioning exactly as it's supposed |
| 0:22.9 | to, and they impact all of us to some degree. |
| 0:26.6 | So either we're all crazy, or none of us are. |
| 0:30.6 | We're taking a deep dive into this, up next, unskeptoid. |
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| 1:22.6 | For listening to SKEPTOID, I'm Brian Dunning from SKEPTOID.com. |
| 1:27.8 | Conspiracy theorists aren't crazy. |
| 1:31.0 | Today we're going to descend into the darkest depths of the human mind, to learn what makes |
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