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Change The resulting anti-vaccine movement has been promoted by a number of prominent persons including Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey and former US President Donald Trump, to The resulting anti-vaccine movement has been promoted by a number of prominent persons including Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey, former US President Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy, selected by Donald Trump to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. ] (]) 13:38, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Change The resulting anti-vaccine movement has been promoted by a number of prominent persons including Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey and former US President Donald Trump, to The resulting anti-vaccine movement has been promoted by a number of prominent persons including Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey, former US President Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy, selected by Donald Trump to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. ] (]) 13:38, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
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Paul Krugman (8 May 2006). "Who's crazy now?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 August 2019. A conspiracy theory, says Misplaced Pages, 'attempts to explain the cause of an event as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance.'
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A:A key feature of conspiracy theories is that they are unfalsifiable, in the sense that they rely on circular reasoning and thus resist any attempt to assess their veracity. At best one can say that conspiracy theories are, by definition, not even wrong. This kind of hair-splitting misses the point, however. Conspiracy theories are not descriptions of real events. If they were, they would be called conspiracies.
"A conspiracy theory is distinct from a conspiracy; it refers to a hypothesized conspiracy with specific characteristics..." This should say "it is", "not it refers to". A conspiracy does not "refer" to a conspiracy; it is one. Or at least it needs some kind of rephrasing. 2A00:23C5:FE1C:3701:B179:C8D1:FF57:859 (talk) 10:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
A conspiracy does not "refer" to a conspiracy; it is one. But a conspiracy theory refers to a conspiracy. And that is what the sentence says. --Hob Gadling (talk) 10:33, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
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Brief scientific literacy interventions, especially those that focus on critical thinking skills, may help to undermine conspiracy beliefs and behaviors before the conspiracy theories have a chance to take root, according to a team led by Penn State researchers.
{{Cite web |title=Brief scientific literacy interventions may quash new conspiracy theories |url=https://spotlightmagazine.ca/2024/12/02/brief-scientific-literacy-interventions-may-quash-new-conspiracy-theories/ |website=Spotlight Magazine |date=2024-12-02 |access-date=2024-12-02 |language=en-US |first= |last=Phys.org |quote=Brief scientific literacy interventions, especially those that focus on critical thinking skills, may help to undermine conspiracy beliefs and behaviors before the conspiracy theories have a chance to take root, according to a team led by Penn State researchers.}}
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Change The resulting anti-vaccine movement has been promoted by a number of prominent persons including Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey and former US President Donald Trump, to The resulting anti-vaccine movement has been promoted by a number of prominent persons including Rob Schneider, Jim Carrey, former US President Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy, selected by Donald Trump to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. Hanzee1 (talk) 13:38, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
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The redirect Conspiracism to this article has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 8 § Conspiracism until a consensus is reached. 67.209.128.24 (talk) 17:12, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Done, though the proposed change was not to this article, but to List of conspiracy theories. See . ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)