{"id":6044,"date":"2015-02-26T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2015-02-26T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T12:09:20","slug":"are-conspiracy-theorists-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6044","title":{"rendered":"Are Conspiracy Theorists Nuts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Conspiracy Theorists Nuts?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Conspiracy Theorists USED TO Be Accepted As Normal<\/h3>\n

Democracy and free market capitalism were\u00a0founded<\/a>\u00a0on conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Magna Carta, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence<\/a>\u00a0and other\u00a0 founding Western documents were based on conspiracy theories.\u00a0Greek democracy and free market capitalism<\/a>\u00a0were also based on conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

But those were the bad old days \u2026Things have now changed.<\/p>\n

The CIA Coined the Term Conspiracy Theorist In 1967<\/h3>\n

That all changed in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Specifically, in April 1967, the CIA\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0a dispatch which coined the term \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d \u2026 and recommended methods for discrediting such theories.\u00a0 The dispatch was marked \u201cpsych\u201d \u2013\u00a0 short for \u201cpsychological operations\u201d or disinformation \u2013\u00a0 and \u201cCS\u201d for the CIA\u2019s \u201cClandestine Services\u201d unit.<\/p>\n

The dispatch was produced in responses to a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times in 1976.<\/p>\n

The dispatch states:<\/p>\n

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Are Conspiracy Theorists Nuts? Conspiracy Theorists USED TO Be Accepted As Normal Democracy and free market capitalism were\u00a0founded\u00a0on conspiracy theories. The\u00a0Magna Carta, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence\u00a0and other\u00a0 founding Western documents were based on conspiracy theories.\u00a0Greek democracy and free market capitalism\u00a0were also based on conspiracy theories. But those were the bad old days \u2026Things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,3802,3800,159,3801,655,1740],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-clandestine-services","tag-conspiracies","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-mainstream-narrative","tag-propaganda","tag-psyops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}