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Conspiracy
- Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
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Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.
Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted by the mysterious group QAnon. But this is only the latest example in a long history of ideas that include the satanic panics of the 1980s, the New World Order and Vatican conspiracy theories, fears about fluoridated water, speculations about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the notions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag operation and 9/11 was an inside job.
In Conspiracy, Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial: elections have been rigged (LBJ's 1948 Senate race); medical professionals have intentionally harmed patients in their care (Tuskegee); your government does lie to you (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan); and, tragically, some adults do conspire to sexually abuse children. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control play a role in conspiratorial cognition patterns, as do certain personality traits.
This engaging book will be an important listen for anyone concerned about the future direction of American politics, as well as anyone who's watched friends or family fall into patterns of conspiratorial thinking.
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The Moral Arc
- How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer, Melody Zownir
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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We are living in the most moral period of our species’ history. Best-selling author Michael Shermer’s most accomplished and ambitious book to date demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral. Ever since the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment thinkers consciously applied the methods of science to solve social and moral problems.
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Us is getting bigger, them is getting smaller
- De Gary en 02-02-15
De: Michael Shermer
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Why People Believe Weird Things
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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UFO abductions, television psychics, paranormal phenomena, skeptics and believers alike, find themselves debating truths and lies in the strange web of pseudoscience and the occult. Now, director of the Skeptics Society Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons why we find other worldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing.
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No Why, not Know Why
- De Quotes&More en 10-07-06
De: Michael Shermer
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The Trump Files
- An Account of the Trump Administration's Effect on American Democracy, Human Rights, Science and Public Health
- De: Jack Hassard
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College Discover the truth about the Trump years with Citizen Jack's gripping and detailed account in The Trump Files. Renowned science educator, researcher, blogger, and author Jack Hassard vividly documents the nation's turbulent Trump years and brings readers back to those troubling days. Through sharp, clear-eyed prose, he takes on racial injustice, the Trumpist worldview, and how science was diminished in the Trump era. The ...
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Fantastic job screwing up a book
- De steve finkelstein en 08-02-24
De: Jack Hassard
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The Science of Good and Evil
- Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
- De: Michael Shermer
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In The Science of Good and Evil, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates into moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal, and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans.
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- De Gregory A. Townsend en 04-16-23
De: Michael Shermer
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Skeptic
- Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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From the author's monthly Scientific American columns. An eclectic, inspiring collection exploring a broad range of scientific thought from best-selling author and celebrated skeptic Michael Shermer.
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Mostly for Those Already in the Choir
- De dugreader en 09-04-16
De: Michael Shermer
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The Storm Is upon Us
- How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
- De: Mike Rothschild
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it’s going next? Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, has been collecting their stories for years, and through interviews with QAnon converts, apostates, and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics, he is uniquely equipped to explain the movement and its followers.
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Great book, lousy narrator
- De Denise Lavely en 06-22-21
De: Mike Rothschild
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American Conspiracies and Cover-Ups
- JFK, 9/11, the Fed, Rigged Elections, Suppressed Cancer Cures, and the Greatest Conspiracies of Our Time
- De: Douglas Cirignano
- Narrado por: Mel Foster, Tom Parks, Joyce Bean
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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America’s Conspiracies and Cover-Ups brings together interviews with the bestselling and brightest minds in the alternative history world to create the definitive guide to our country’s biggest secrets. Jim Marrs and G. Edward Griffin, along with scholar Noam Chomsky and others experts, come together to answer questions about your favorite conspiracies: Is the Federal Reserve System unconstitutional? Was the IRS created to bail out Big Banks? Are cancer cures and cheap alternative energy being suppressed? Are elections made fraudulent by hacked voting machines?
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An excellent collection of must know information
- De Nick en 12-06-20
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Denying History
- Holocaust Denial, Pseudohistory, and How We Know What Happened in the Past
- De: Michael Brant Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Brant Shermer
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust "revisionists." In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened.
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Please don't let this guy read his own work!!!
- De Laurie en 11-30-09
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Hidden History
- An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
- De: Donald Jeffries
- Narrado por: Lars Mikaelson
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
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The US government has spent half the time covering up conspiracies as it has spent helping the American people. In Hidden History, you will see the amount of effort over the past fifty years that our government has dedicated to lying and covering up the truth to the world. Starting with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don Jeffries chronicles a wide variety of issues that have plagued our country's history.
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Good information with too much opinion.
- De humble en 12-29-19
De: Donald Jeffries
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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- De: Cailin O’Connor, James Owen Weatherall
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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Veritas!
- De Charles Henderson en 08-11-20
De: Cailin O’Connor, y otros
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A Lot of People Are Saying
- The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
- De: Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead
- Narrado por: Katherine Fenton
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new - conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum reveal how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it.
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INSIGHTFUL
- De JaredENH en 04-30-19
De: Nancy L. Rosenblum, y otros
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Network Propaganda
- Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
- De: Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts
- Narrado por: Steve Menasche
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
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A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which disinformation and propaganda thrives. Network Propaganda challenges that received wisdom through the most comprehensive study yet published on media coverage of American presidential politics from the start of the election cycle in April 2015 to the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency.
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Biased biased biased
- De Maria Stevens en 01-17-20
De: Yochai Benkler, y otros
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Enemy of the People
- Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
- De: Marvin Kalb
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.
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An eye opening must read of the circle of history to this very moment
- De Kindle CustomerDebora en 05-22-19
De: Marvin Kalb
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- Bradley Peterson
- 12-23-22
Good info, performance is patronizing
While there is a lot of interesting information in this book, the author’s tone got annoying especially playing down conspiratorial beliefs.
I guess, since the book was like a glimpse at a lot of conspiracies, diving deeper into only a few, it left me wanting. There are differences in conspiracies. I.e. tone, conclusions, depth, reasoning. Some conspiracies are flat out bs, others have truths. If there are truths to some narratives, they can not be made fun of so flippantly.
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- HisNameWasBruce
- 11-30-22
Shermer's Books Are Getting Less Good
I've been reading Shermer for years. I agree with him on most conspiracies. But this one felt a little lazy and not as skeptical as he should be. He seems to have a bias towards always believing what the government says unless they are caught lying. He says this despite showing tons of times they lie. This doesn't mean they caused 9/11 or are reptilians, but it means I can't just trust them.
He's also bizarrely selective in repeating the old famous conspiracies. What about the newest ones like Jeffrey Epstein or Russiagate? He seems to ignore these ones to focus on Qanon and election conspiracies. I also hate to say this but the liberal bias is getting prominent when it used to be very absent in his books. I know some people will see me say that and dismiss the review, but he really does only focus on conspiracies that make Trump look bad at the exclusion of ones that make democrats look bad. I could care less about blaming political sides for things, his selectiveness is just so transparent.
I also wish he spent time actually interviewing and studying conspiracy theorists (Like he used to with people saying they were abducted by aliens.) I would like to get some more insights beyond "they just believe what they hear on the internet and we should ban Alex Jones." For instance, WHY did the pizzagate guy come to believe there was some sex dungeon at a pizza place? Was he just insane, or was their some weird pieces of "evidence" he used? Felt lazy.
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- Rose
- 12-08-22
No pdf included on Audible App
I have purchased other books with PDFs attached and was able to review them. This title did not seem to have one or I could not find it.
Overall, this was an interesting listen, but it did get a bit tedious with all the lists. I think that having a hard copy as opposed to listening, would have made more sense.
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- cody heitman
- 11-04-22
Conspiracy?
Hard to listen too. His Examples are the worst. To be so confident that the JFK assassination was a lone gunman while the government still refusing to release documents and evidence pertaining to it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-10-23
Missing Coda
This book gives a great foundation for understanding conspiracy theories in the US. My only complaint is the accompanying PDF is supposed to contain a coda of study results, and only contains the figures from the print book, where do I find the coda?
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- Charles E. David
- 07-23-23
Interesting book
Many of the conspiracy cited stories are told elsewhere in greater detail. This book has a good overview.
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- Drew schroeder
- 11-04-22
great author.
second book I've gone through with this author. He very well goes through all of the most controversial, both old and new conspiracy theories. JFK assassination, 9/11, Lizard Overloads, Roswell New Mexico, Watergate, Obama's Birth Certificate, and the January 6th 2021 Insurrection. he not only debunks the ones needing debunking, and confirms the ones that are obvious truths but he also TEACHES you how to think. he talks about what biases might get in your way from critical thinking in order to find the truth. He also talks about how and (most importantly) WHY we form beliefs. The author could not be more clear in his message he is trying to portray throughout this book. 10/10
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- Angus McAvity
- 11-30-22
A mandatory read
A mandatory read for everyone who wants to be educated and rational in thinking and behavior.
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- RK
- 03-02-24
Required for teenagers raised on YouTube
Discusses the roots of conspiratorial thinking, with acknowledgement that this is to be expected from a portion of the population. Correlations of these believes with unfavorable personality traits demonstrate the dangers of this mindset. And finally, a rapid fire greatest hits concisely debunking famous conspiracies, but also explaining a few that were real.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-28-22
Solid Info
I've read mostly all of Shermer's books. This one was good but seems a lot like bits and pieces of his other books with some new stories sprinkled in.
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