CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Made by Lili Gombas and Molli Mulidran

 “The theory that an
CONSPIRACY THEORY event of
– IN GENERAL phenomenon occurs
as a result of a
conspiracy between
interested” parties
(Oxford English
Dictionary)

Negative connotation

A conspiracy theory IS
NOT THE SAME AS A
CONSPIRACY!!!
CONSPIRACY THEORY
VS CONSPIRACY
A conspiracy theory is not simply about a conspiracy, which refers
to any covert plan involving two or more people. In contrast, the
term "conspiracy theory" refers to hypothesized conspiracies that
have specific characteristics

conspiracy theories suggest that conspiracies are unrealistically

successful

Real conspiracies, even very simple ones, are difficult to conceal

and routinely experience unexpected problems
ITS HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
Charles Astor Bristed – New York
Times 1863

American Civil War

The word "conspiracy" derives

from
the Latin con- ("with, together")
and spirare ("to breathe")
 A report from FBI conspiracy
theories as "a new domestic terror
threat."

ITS DARK Per the report, “The FBI assesses

these conspiracy theories very
SIDE likely will emerge, spread, and
evolve in the modern information
marketplace, occasionally driving
both groups and individual
extremists to carry out criminal or
violent acts
WHY THESE
THEORIES ARE SO Feeling of
POPULAR? powerlessness

Explaining unlikely
events

Coping with threats

Disputing mainstream
politics
THE 7 TRAITS OF
CONSPIRATORIAL
THINKING
•Contradictory
•Overriding suspicion
•Nefarious intent
•Something must be wrong
•Persecuted victim
•Immune to evidence
•Reinterpreting randomness
PROTECTING
THE PUBLIC
Prebunking

Debunking

Empowering people
 The Twin Towers were brought
down by explosives not planes

Early video footage and photos

taken from the scene did not seem
to show much evidence of plane
wreckage.

The North American Aerospace

Defense Command (NORAD)
THE 9/11 deliberately ordered their fighter
jets to stand down and allow the
CONSPIRACIES hijacked planes to reach their
targets. 
 The driver of the car, was
an informant for the
security services who may
even have deliberately
caused the crash.
Paparazzi were
deliberately chasing the
car to make it crash.
 Diana did not die on
impact and that her
treatment at the scene of
the crash was deliberately
PRINCESS DIANA'S delayed to prevent her
from surviving
MURDER
 The moon landing is fake
because the American flag
looks like it is flapping in the
wind.
The moon landing is fake
because you can’t see the stars.
The moon landing is fake
because Stanley Kubrick filmed
it.
MOON LANDING
HOAX
 Condensation trails are
full of other chemicals
that scientists and
governments are
seeding into the
atmosphere.
It might be biological
warfare or population
control or
geoengineering or an
attempt to manipulate
CHEMTRAILS the weather. 
 Lizard people are cold-blooded
humanoid reptilians who have the
power to shape-shift into human
form.
These creatures have had their claws
in humankind since ancient time,
and world leaders like Queen
Elizabeth, George W. Bush and the
Clintons are all lizard people.

LIZARD PEOPLE
RULE THE WORLD
GLOBAL
WARMING

„Climate has always

changed”
„No proof of human
cause”
„A little warming is
good”
„Scientists question
climate change”
COVID „The virus escaped from
a Chinese lab”
„COVID was created as
a biological weapon”
„The US military
imported COVID into
China”
„The virus escaped from
a Chinese lab”
„COVID-19 doesn’t
actually exist”
„COVID is a plot by Big
Pharma”
 people who believe the
world is flat think that the
world is a disc.

FLAT EARTH
BEHIND THE CURVE 2018 NETFLIX
DOCUMENTARY
HOW CONSPIRACY
THEORIES SPREAD?
A scientist went along to the U S flat earth convention
and spoke to people there and asked, how did you get
into the flat earth movement?

And of the 40 people they asked, 39 of them said, I saw

it recommended to me on YouTube
DUNNING Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, a
cognitive bias whereby people with limited
KRUGER knowledge or competence in a given
intellectual or social domain greatly
EFFECT overestimate their own knowledge.
 Suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of
incomplete evidence is the act of pointing
to individual cases or data that seem to
CHERRY confirm a particular position while ignoring a
significant portion of related and similar
PICKING cases or data that may contradict that
position.
Cherry picking may be committed
intentionally or unintentionally.
Making uninformed or poorly-
informed decisions.
 THINK
CRITICALLY!
Thank you for your attention!
 SOURCES
Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
https://www.history.co.uk/shows/road-to-911/5-compelling-9-11-conspiracy-theories
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/nyregion/02conspiracy.html
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/6-conspiracy-theories-about-the-death-of-princess-diana-debunked
https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-fake-conspiracy-theories
https://guides.monmouth.edu/media_literacy/ConspTheories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Astor_Bristed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/13/conspiracy-theories-used-to-be-fun-now-everyone-is-freaking-ou
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https://stock.adobe.com/images/suspicious-boy-cartoon-hand-drawn-image-original-colorful-artwork-comic-childish-style-dr
awing/174778168

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https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ConspiracyTheoryHandbook.pdf