In the aftermath of the Washington Post's article revealing that several major U.S. internet companies are in collusion with the NSA's long running post-9/11 data mining efforts, I felt it might be worth posting this lecture from Rob Brotherton on the psychology of conspiratorial thinking as a form of skeptical response to the Facebook noise surrounding this issue. This lecture explains the difference between what most skeptics call "conspiracy theories" and the more generalized definition of them, which tends to cause confusions of connotations and clear definitions. I think the misunderstanding is similar to the general definition of the word "theory" and the scientific definition of the word "theory".
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