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050 00 $aHV6275$b.C663 2012
082 00 $a001.9$223
049 $aMAIN
245 00 $aConspiracy theories /$cedited by, Paul McCaffrey.
260 $aIpswich, Mass. :$bH.W. Wilson,$c©2012.
300 $axii, 228 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aThe reference shelf ;$vv. 84, no. 1
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $t"The paranoid style" : an introduction to conspiracy theories. After Hofstadter : conspiracy theories in America /$rby Paul McCaffrey --$tConspiracy theories : an overview /$rby Micah Issit --$tConspiracy theories probe the dark side of life /$rby Sally Driscoll and Laura Finley --$tConspiracy theories are fodder for the gullible /$rby Beverly Ballaro and Chuck Goodwin --$tThe truth is out there ... way out there /$rby George Case --$tAmerica's addiction to belief /$rby Brian Trent --$tInternet conspiracies : where the absence of evidence is confirmation of the claim /$rby Brian K. Pinaire --$tConfessions of a non-serial killer : conspiracy theories are all fun and games until you become the subject of one /$rby Michael O'Hare --$tThe twin towers and the truthers : 9/11 conspiracy theories. The 9/11 conspiracy : the theories and the evidence /$rby Paul McCaffrey --$tViewing 9/11 from a grassy knoll : you won't believe what the conspiracy theorists are claiming or will you? /$rby Will Sullivan --$tThe anatomy of lunacy /$rby Andrew Roberts --$t9/11 : the roots of paranoia /$rby Christopher Hayes --$tThe American empire and 9/11 /$rby David Ray Griffin --$tProfessors of paranoia /$rby John Gravois --$t500 conspiracy buffs meet to seek the truth of 9/11 /$rby Alan Feuer --$tWho still believes in 9/11 conspiracies? : An empirical study on political affiliation and conspiratorial thinking /$rby Scott Sommers --$tShots in Dallas : the JFK assassination. American enigma : Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination /$rby Paul McCaffrey --$tOswald shoots JFK : but who is the real target? /$rby William Rubinstein --$tA prosecutor takes on the JFK assassination /$rby Sheldon M. Stern --$tAssassination of John F. Kennedy : conspiracy theorists agree that anyone who accepts the Warren Commission's "lone gunman" and "magic bullet" theories is living in the Land of Oz /$rby Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger --$tNew insights into Kennedy's assassination : documents show that Oswald, the mob, anti-Castro Cubans, and right-wing groups really did conspire to kill the president /$rby David Kaiser --$tResearchers at A & M discredit JFK theory /$rby Holly Huffman --$tMartha, Steward : forty years after JFK's assassination, conspiracy theorists still rely on a retired Marion schoolteacher to keep the facts straight /$rby Bill Shaw --$tThe good spy : how the quashing of an honest C.I.A. investigator helped launch 40 years of JFK conspiracy theories and cynicism about the Feds /$rby Jefferson Morley --$tGovernment machinations : political conspiracy theories. The Clinton conspiracies /$rby Paul McCaffrey --$tCiting "sideshow", Obama offers full birth certificate /$rby Susan Page and Jackie Kucinich --$tLatest conspiracy theory, Kerry won, hits the ether /$rby Manuel Roig-Franzia and Dan Keating --$tThose pesky voters /$rby Bob Herbert --$tA week of fear : but not in the GOP's convention hall /$rby Byron York --$tWhatever it is, Bill Clinton likely did it : without proof, foes say he's tied to lurid crimes /$rby Greg Ferguson and David Bowermaster --$tFrom bombed levees to blood libel : religious and ethnic conspiracy theories. "Myths of the unloved" and myths of the majority /$rby Paul McCaffrey --$tBlame it on the Jews : anti-Semitism and the history of Jewish conspiracy theories /$rby Phil Molé --$tZOG ate my brains : conspiracy theories about Jews abound, Chip Berlet unpacks their appeal /$rby Chip Berlet --$tThe Tuskegee Experiment's long shadow /$rby Paul Ruffins --$tWere the levees bombed in New Orleans? : Ninth Ward residents give voice to a conspiracy theory /$rby Lisa Myers and the NBC Investigative Unit --$tFor critics of Islam, "sharia" a loaded word /$rMichelle Boorstein --$tScience fictions? Roswell, the Moon landing, and beyond. The Roswell mystery and its legacy /$rby Paul McCaffrey --$tRoswell, New Mexico, UFO crash /$rby Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger --$tDid NASA fake the Moon landing? /$rby Ray Villard --$tSeeing red on Mars /$rby David L. Chandler --$tIs baked Alaska half-baked? : Alaska's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a magnet for conspiracy theorists /$rby David Naiditch.
520 $aThe expression "conspiracy theory" is used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at "stealing" power, money, or freedom, from "the people." Less illustrious uses refer to folklore and urban legend. Sometimes the expression is used to characterize a form of speculation as ridiculous, outlandish or irrational. This Reference Shelf examines a number of well-known conspiracy theories, their sources, effects and credibility.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aConspiracy theories.
650 7 $aConspiracy theories.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01748943
655 4 $aNonfiction.
700 1 $aMcCaffrey, Paul,$d1977-
830 0 $aReference shelf ;$vv. 84, no. 1.
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