Who believes the most "taboo" conspiracy theories?

[reACTIONary]

Who believes the most "taboo" conspiracy theories? It might not be who you think...

The belief "that school shootings like Sandy Hook and Parkland are false-flag attacks ... and that the number of Jews killed by the Nazis has been exaggerated on purpose — these two particular claims are disproportionately held by white graduate-degree-holding men."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23780231241237654

[shrike3]

1. People who believe they're smarter than everyone else.

Some of them are graduate degree-holding white men.

[jgo]

2. Interesting, thank you. Article speculates on reason ...

"Mentioning to your coworkers that you suspect 5G towers have a sinister purpose or that the government is hiding aliens may prompt looks of confusion or judgment. Telling your coworkers that Sandy Hook was perpetrated by the government or that the Holocaust death count was intentionally exaggerated, on the other hand, seems likely to elicit more serious penalties. Perhaps for high status white men, agreeing with these beliefs on a survey and/or holding them more deeply allows respondents to feel that they have some sort of specialized and transgressive expertise or access to some particularly stigmatized knowledge (Barkun 2015) in the face of perceived threats to group status."

[Ponietz]

4. I believe we haven't fully understood the effects of electronic smog

We do know that migratory birds can see magnetic fields and that e-smog can distort or blind their ability to successfully migrate. Oops! with petroleum. Oops! with artificial sweeteners. Oops! with plastics. And so on.

[Aristus]

3. I really dislike people who claim to be hard-headed, skeptical

independent thinkers, when it is perfectly clear that they are not thinking at all.

[FakeNoose]

5. Maybe this study would have been really significant

... if they had asked the question, "Do you get your news exclusively on Faux Noise?"