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What do people think about this analysis of CT psychology?
I only listened to a part of it, but I think the problem is that the guy is suffering from psychopathological ideation - a term I just coined to refer to people who have a pathological desire to interpret other people's ideas in psychological terms :)What do people think about this analysis of CT psychology?
Wow - that was a totally brilliant video - thank you so much for posting it. What was said is enormously relevant to so much of what we discuss on Skeptiko, that I hope you will put this video at the head of a new thread - say in "Why science is wrong...." so that this topic doesn't get lost.I like what Eric Weinstein said lately in a recent interview -
"What do you mean a conspiracy theorist? So when I hear nightly on the news that maybe Russia is controlling the American elections and trying to prop Donald Trump up, are those conspiracy theories? When I hear that the corona virus is in fact under control and the market falls apart, is that a conspiracy theory? I mean where are we in history that conspiracy theorizing is a privilege of the people inside the institutional class. No. That's incompetent. We have discovered conspiracies previously in the United States. COINTELPRO is probably the most disturbing conspiracy that we've found within the last 50 years. In fact, conspiracies happen and you need to be able to go after them. So I think we should make a new rule. The next person who tries to use the epithet conspiracy theorist, we try to figure out what conspiracy theory they've been pushing, because frankly everybody inside the gated institutional narrative is hawking one conspiracy theory or the other. Its time for this technique of trying to intimidate people by using that epithet to die."