[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Id recommend reading the original scientific research, rather than the spin put on it by a conspiracy-theory website. Or at least read the abstract, which needless to say doesn't say anything about conspiracy theorists being "the most sane of all".

Indeed. If you read the original paper instead of someone's distortion, or wishful take on it you get a whole different vibe of what the authors are trying to say.

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journ...013.00409/full

We argue that in fact, anomaly hunting, or a fixation on errant data, is a manifestation of the way conspiracism is structured as a worldview. In general, conspiracy belief is not based around specific theories of how events transpire, though these may exist as well. Instead, conspiracism is rooted in several higher-order beliefs such as an abiding mistrust of authority, the conviction that nothing is quite as it seems, and the belief that most of what we are told is a lie. Apparent anomalies in official accounts seem to support this, even if they do not point to a specific, well-defined alternative. For many conspiracists, there are two worlds: one real and (mostly) unseen, the other a sinister illusion meant to cover up the truth; and evidence against the latter is evidence for the former.