On 8 July 2013, psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas, of the University of Kent in theUK, published a study of conspiracist and conventionalist comments at news websites.
The authors were surprised to discover that:
Of the 2174 comments collected, 1459 were conspiracist and 715 were conventionalist.
"That means it is the pro-conspiracy commenters who are expressing what is now the conventional wisdom, while the anti-conspiracy commenters are becoming a small, beleaguered minority."
The new study by Wood and Douglas suggests that the negative stereotype - a hostile fanatic wedded to the truth of his own fringe theory - "accurately describes the people who defend the official account of 9/11, not those who dispute it.
New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile
http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/conspiracists-versus-conventionalists.html
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