Anthony Wile
Daily Bell
January 29, 2012
From Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS),
a journal from the independent publisher Sage Publications, comes an
article that has predictably seen wide distribution on the
Internet. It implies that those who believe in globalist conspiracy theories are illogical – even downright nutty.
The article is entitled ”Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory
Conspiracy Theories” and the thesis of the article is that people who
believe in conspiracy theories eventually become so immersed in them and
so mesmerized that they do not realize they are holding contradictory
beliefs.
“Conspiracy theories can form a monological belief system: A
self-sustaining worldview comprised of a network of mutually supportive
beliefs. The present research shows that even mutually incompatible
conspiracy theories are positively correlated in endorsement.” (SPPS Abstract
“Conspiratorialists” become so distrustful of “government” and
“authority” that they will impute any and every kind of malevolence to
them.
Thus it is that people can claim, on the one hand, that Osama bin
Laden is “dead” and died years ago, while simultaneously claiming that
bin Laden remains alive and that US and Pakistan government authorities
are not being truthful about him and his physical state.
Of course, I’ve never run into anyone, who claims that bin Laden is
ALIVE. But it’s true that here at the Daily Bell we’ve run articles
explaining that bin Laden probably died years ago. See, for instance, “Osama bin Laden is Dead Again?”
The SPPS article would likely have you believe this is an
outrageous conspiracy theory. But given that FOX news ran a report on
bin Laden’s death in 2001, and given that Pakistan’s former president
Benazir Bhutto herself claimed that bin Laden died in the early 2000s
(supposedly as the result of an assassination), it doesn’t seem so
far-fetched to speculate that bin Laden didn’t die as the result of a US
raid in 2011. (CONTINUE READING)