Research Catalog

Title

Conscience of a conspiracy theorist / Robert Lockwood Mills.

Author

Mills, Robert Lockwood.

Publication

New York : Algora Pub., c2011.

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Details

Description

xiv, 213 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"'Conscience of a Conspiracy Theorist' seeks to show how governmental deceit and (corporate-controlled) media silence have combined to keep the public misinformed about shocking events in American history. In the process, skeptics who quesion the "official accounts" are labeled "conspiracy theorists," a pejorative term that carries with in suggestions of foolishness and a lack of patriotism"--Cover page 4.

Subject

• Conspiracies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

It's dangerous to shave with Occam's razor -- Of mergers, acquisitions, and news blackouts -- The internet becomes the fifth estate -- Academic conspiracy theorists and mindless debunkers -- The press maintains its own Patriot Act -- False flags have flown forever -- Debunkers and debunkers of debunkers -- Deaths of the rich and famous -- The peculiar lexicon of conspiracy theorists and debunkers -- Grand conspiracy theories with questionable motives -- Sometimes cops are the conspiracy theorists -- When a ruling authority becomes the conspiracy theorist -- Reinvestigating 9/11 -- Dan fool and trey cool meet again -- Of covert activities and paramilitary operations -- What did Ian Fleming know, and when did he know it? -- Would people in our government do something like that? -- Opportunity, means, and a huge dilemma -- Did they really say that? -- The gospel according to the History Channel.

ISBN

• 9780875868257 (soft : alk. paper)
• 0875868258 (soft : alk. paper)
• 9780875868264 (hard : alk. paper)
• 0875868266 (hard : alk. paper)
• 9780875868271 (ebook)
• 0875868274 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010050440

OCLC

693750948

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library