Re: conspiracy theory

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 20:11:49 BST

  • Next message: Vincent Campbell: "RE: Faking It: The Internet Revolution Has Nothing to Do With the Nasdaq" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA27182 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:33:21 +0100
Message-ID: <002101c10ef4$722c4ec0$01a2bed4@default>
From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745FA0@inchna.stir.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: conspiracy theory
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:11:49 +0200
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:09 PM
    Subject: conspiracy theory

    > Hi everyone,
    >
    > I was just wondering if anyone knew of any work into the psychology of
    > conspiracy theory/theorists?
    > I ask for several reasons, not least I'm interested in how the persuasive
    > industries' textbook strategies work or fail to work in relation to
    > particular conspiracy theories (e.g. how do NASA PR people deal, or fail
    to
    > deal with fake moon landing conspirators etc. etc.).
    >
    > I also think it's an interesting question for memetics, because conspiracy
    > theories seem to grab people and not let go, even in the face of
    conflicting
    > evidence. (e.g. America's obsession with the murder of Jonbenet Ramsey- a
    > recent documentary on UK TV showed strong evidence of an intruder using a
    stun gun, but checking the US press the next day, not a single word- not
    > even in the Colorado press).

    Hi Vincent,

    If you ever want ' first hand ' evidence for conspiracy theories don 't
    count
    me out !!
    I live in Belgium, remerber, I got a few examples, if you want them !!

    Best regards,

    Kenneth

    ( I am, because we are) Peeping Toms

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jul 17 2001 - 19:37:25 BST