definition, these things happen all the time. Coalitional plots against people in your group or between groups is quite common in our evolutionary history. So my evolutionary argument is that we evolved a constructive conspiracism that is a kind of paranoia in which in signal detection theory language, it's better to make a type one error in which you assume a conspiracy theory is true when it's not, just in case, versus a type two error where you miss a real conspiracy that could harm you. So there's a kind of a logic, a rationality to it as it were, because the subtitle of my book is why the rational believe the irrational. In many ways, there's a kind of rationality behind most conspiracy theories. There's a tiny little element of truth, even in Alex Jones's crazy rantings about false flag operations at Sandy Hook, there have been false flag operations in the past. I mean, the CAA is notorious for their false flag operations in the 50s and 60s, particularly rigged elections in South (13/57)
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