Monday, 18 February 2008

The Smell of French & Leman - A Conspiraloon Critique™

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The Conspiraloon Alliance™ is very proud to salute two of the truthiest™ most expert™ scienticians™ ever to have emerged from the scientific community
in the entire history of planet truth™. Rather than writing endless hand-wringing praise for this fantastic pair, we felt that the words contained within the following two videos should do all the talking - so please, take a seat, relax, disengage your brains, and dumb yourselves down in the company of

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(There now follows a paltry political bullshitcast from Dr Patrick Leman and Professor Chris French as featured in channel 4's shitfest WhoRe ally Runs the World? Who Really Runs the World?)
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18 comments:

The Antagonist said...

'Scientific' rigour ended before the 'experiment' started.

As Herr Doktor Leman says up front:

"As psychologists, we're not principally interested in whether one particular conspiracy theory is true, or another one isn't. We're interested ultimately in a psychological perspective which is: Why do people believe in these and why do people not believe in them."

Their interest is not in truth, or the facts of any matter that might be in question, but instead their interest is in why people believe anything, irrespective of whether it is true or not.

Which, of course, is a totally different issue to why people might believe something that is true, or why they might believe something that is patently untrue.

This isn't junk science or junk psychology, it's pure unadulterated junk.

paul said...

Good to see you, how was the abduction?

jon doy said...

Hi Paul, good to be back, unfortunately since my new alien god from space (haunted) returned me to this dimension i keep passing alien probes during my ablutions...and they block the toilet something awful :(

paul said...

He's also got a formula, suspiciously close to u75's protocols of the conspiraloons

Create the perfect conspiracy theory

Pick your adversary

A sense of anomie (dislocation from society and authority) fuels beliefs in conspiracy theories, so pick a big bad organisation of some sort - government or big business is ideal

For added spice, identify a shadowy, secretive society with implied links to your adversary: the more shadowy, the better

Choose your event

You'll need a big, contemporary newsworthy event around which to weave your theory

If it's a sudden, shocking visual occurrence of international import it is more likely to become a "flashbulb memory" for the masses. Your key conspiracy audience, most able to create such vivid "indelible" memories will be between the ages of 20 and 35

Develop your story

Construct your theory from carefully selected information that weaves together into a compelling story

If something doesn't fit, reinterpret it in line with your theory

Create uncertainty: question existing evidence or find new evidence that contradicts the "official" account

Prepare your defence

If someone highlights a gap or inconsistency in your evidence, don't be afraid to tweak your story, but keep the core conspiracy in place

You can allow the finer details of the theory to mutate, but always keep in mind the maxim - "they did it, I just have to find the proof that they did it"

Broaden the circle of conspirators to include those who question your position... "they're denying the truth - they must be involved too!"


The brilliant research paper is as yet unpublished, I note. Maybe TVQuick can find it a home.

paul said...

keep passing alien probes during my ablutions.
Nasty if they get lodged sideways...I read somewhere....

paul said...

From 2002

Secret radar technology research that will allow the biggest-ever extension of 'Big Brother'-style surveillance in the UK is being funded by the Government.

The radical new system, which has outraged civil liberties groups, uses mobile phone masts to allow security authorities to watch vehicles and individuals 'in real time' almost anywhere in Britain.


I wonder why they thought they had made this conspiracy up themselves?

paul said...

Speaking of shit on television, I witnessed the strangest thing through the haze of alcoholic shock on sunday morning, in the middle of a cookery programme 'something for the weekend'(but not a contraceptive). A guest, 'Simon Reeve' popped up and was asked about 'conspiracy theories'. To my astonishment, he didn't have much time for them!

Turns out he wrote a book about the WTC 93 bombs and predicted the muslim terrofascists. Though how anyone could look at that and not get a little CT is beyond me

He also wrote about black september...I'm sure he thinks its just a coincidence that two films have been made about that and er no films (within the military industrial entertainment complex) have been made about sabra and shatilla or pan am 103.

Show's how powerful confirmation bias can be....

Stef said...

but what was he cooking?

paul said...

He served up a big pile of shite, lightly grilled by the presenter, from what I could see

Stef said...

what really freaks me out is Herbie the Conspiracy Hedgehog's appearance on a shelf in the background of that 2nd clip

The little f*cker didn't tell me he was going to be on the tele

paul said...

I've seen 'A Star is Born'...This will not end happily

Stef said...

Secret radar technology research that will allow the biggest-ever extension of 'Big Brother'-style surveillance in the UK is being funded by the Government.

Almost 20 years ago whilst doing a Geophysics MSc I met a couple of guys who had cracked the maths required to track hundreds of individual vehicles using airborne arrays mounted in aircraft hundreds of miles away - they didn't act as if it were a big secret even back then

I think it'd be fair to conclude that this kind of stuff has already been put in place long ago

paul said...

Dawn French and Jennifer Leman would suss your type out quick sticks.

Stef said...

In another room there were another couple of guys with seismic maps of large swathes of Antarctica playing spot the oil field - there were Xs all over the place...

Stef said...

... no subterranean Nazi UFO bases though :(

markus ORLYus said...

It should read,
"As psycholgistsTM we're not particularly interested."

Anyone know the best attire for a shitstorm?

Nuanced, as ever. Not that it matters now what anyone thinks. Like wheeling two paraplegics up to the starting blocks. But its intellectual, so who's gonna know, right? There should be armed guards on the borders between psychology and politics, and not the ones supplied by acme.

jon doy said...

Mobile phone records tracked the movements of Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem across London while they were alleged to have been visiting potential targets

The Antagonist said...

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"Calls were then made to Directory Enquiries, the London Tourist Board and then the Natural History Museum."

"Hello, directory inquiries? Can I have the number for the London Tourist Board and the Natural History Museum please?"

Then:

"Around 45 minutes later a further call was made to the museum by Shakil's mobile phone, the jury heard."

Well, I never. Obtaining telephone numbers from directory inquiries and then going on to phone the numbers provided. Now that's what I call terrorism and, much better as far as the jokers bringing the prosecution are concerned, absolute 100% PROOF of terrorism.

Lock 'em up and throw away the key.