Episode 83: Rerelease - Contextualizing Conspiracy Theories
This is an oldie but a goodie that we are rereleasing while Marc celebrates his son's wedding. Conspiracy theories are everywhere, so we wanted to contextualize them. Please note, this is when we were still known as xtemporaneous and before we got our cool new podcasting equipment. If you want to hear more about conspiracies from us please see also:
Flat Earth: episodes 2 and 3
Anti-Vax: episode 4
Qconspiracy: episodes 32 and 33
Our key sources are below.
Does subliminal "advertising" actually work? It might: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sold-language/201101/subliminal-seduction-gets-second-glance
Top Ten Conspiracy Theories: https://www.livescience.com/11375-top-ten-conspiracy-theories.html
Bush Attack Ad with Rats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2Fl50_e8A
Some historical Conspiracies: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/588240/historical-conspiracy-theories
History of propaganda: https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-2-what-is-propaganda-(1944)/the-story-of-propaganda
For a tidy list of some of the conspiracies that got sucked into the QAnon master conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
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