Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures
Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9760.2008.00325.x
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Vermeule, Adrian
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作者：
Sunstein, Cass R.;Vermeule, Adrian
“真相就在那里”：1 阴谋论就在我们身边。 2004年8月，佐格比国际组织的一项民意调查显示，49%的纽约市居民（误差幅度为3.5%）认为，美国政府官员“提前知道袭击计划在2001年9月11日左右进行，但他们有意识地没有采取行动”。 2 在 2006 年斯克里普斯-霍华德民意调查中，约 36% 的受访者同意“联邦官员要么参与了对世贸中心的袭击，要么没有采取任何行动阻止袭击”。 3 16% 的人表示，“纽约双子塔的倒塌很可能是由于两座建筑中秘密安放的炸药促成的”。 4 阴谋论在世界各地随处可见。 2006年9月的一项民意调查显示，在头脑清醒的加拿大人中，22%的人认为“2001年9月11日对美国的袭击与奥萨马·本·拉登无关，实际上是有影响力的美国人策划的”。 5 在七个穆斯林国家进行的一项民意调查中，78% 的受访者表示，他们不相信 9/11 袭击是阿拉伯人所为。 6 最受欢迎
“THE truth is out there”: 1 conspiracy theories are all around us. In August 2004, a poll by Zogby International showed that 49 percent of New York City residents, with a margin of error of 3.5 percent, believed that officials of the US government “knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act.” 2 In a Scripps-Howard Poll in 2006, some 36 percent of respondents assented to the claim that “federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center or took no action to stop them.” 3 Sixteen percent said that it was either very likely or somewhat likely that “the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings.” 4 Conspiracy theories can easily be found all over the world. Among sober-minded Canadians, a September 2006 poll found that 22 percent believed that “the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden and were actually a plot by influential Americans.” 5 In a poll conducted in seven Muslim countries, 78 percent of respondents said that they do not believe the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Arabs. 6 The most popular