The sheriff of maricopa county has determined that the doc put forth by the hawaii dept of health is a computer generated forgery. And that's overruled by an article on wikipedia? Contrary to an official investigation by an elected law enforcement agency, Piezoe has alternative facts. An article on wikipedia. LMAO You're a clown Piezoe
From Scientific American The Sciences Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? Who believes in conspiracy theories—and why By Michael Shermer on December 1, 2014 Credit: Izhar Cohen President Barack Obama has been a busy man while in office: he concocted a fake birth certificate to hide his true identity as a foreigner, created “death panels” to determine who would live and who would die under his health care plan, conspired to destroy religious liberty by mandating contraceptives for religious institutions, blew up the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig to garner support for his environmental agenda, masterminded Syrian gas attacks as a pretext to war, orchestrated the shooting of a tsa agent to strengthen that agency's powers, ordered the Sandy Hook school massacre to push through gun-control legislation, and built concentration camps in which to place Americans who resist. Do people really believe such conspiracy theories? They do, and in disturbingly high numbers, according to recent empirical research collected by University of Miami political scientists Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent and presented in their 2014 book American Conspiracy Theories (Oxford University Press). About a third of Americans, for example, believe the “birther” conspiracy theory that Obama is a foreigner. About as many believe that 9/11 was an “inside job” by the Bush administration. The idea that such beliefs are held only by a bunch of nerdy white guys living in their parents' basements is a myth. Surveys by Uscinski and Parent show that believers in conspiracies “cut across gender, age, race, income, political affiliation, educational level, and occupational status.” People on both the political left and right, for example, believe in conspiracies roughly equally, although each finds different cabals. Liberals are more likely to suspect that media sources and political parties are pawns of rich capitalists and corporations, whereas conservatives tend to believe that academics and liberal elites control these same institutions. GMO conspiracy theories are embraced primarily by those on the left (who accuse, for example, Monsanto of conspiring to destroy small farmers), whereas climate change conspiracy theories are endorsed primarily by those on the right (who inculpate, for example, academic climate scientists for manipulating data to destroy the American economy). Group identity is also a factor. African-Americans are more likely to believe that the CIA planted crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods. White Americans are more likely to believe that the government is conspiring to tax the rich to support welfare queens and turn the country into a socialist utopia. Encouragingly, Uscinski and Parent found that education makes a difference in reducing conspiratorial thinking: 42 percent of those without a high school diploma are high in conspiratorial predispositions, compared with 23 percent with postgraduate degrees. Even so, that means more than one in five Americans with postgraduate degrees show a high predisposition for conspiratorial belief. As an educator, I find this disturbing. Other factors are at work in creating a conspiratorial mind. Uscinski and Parent note that in laboratory experiments “researchers have found that inducing anxiety or loss of control triggers respondents to see nonexistent patterns and evoke conspiratorial explanations” and that in the real world “there is evidence that disasters (e.g., earthquakes) and other high-stress situations (e.g., job uncertainty) prompt people to concoct, embrace, and repeat conspiracy theories.” A conspiracy theory, Uscinski and Parent explain, is defined by four characteristics: “(1) a group (2) acting in secret (3) to alter institutions, usurp power, hide truth, or gain utility (4) at the expense of the common good.” A content analysis of more than 100,000 letters to the New York Times in 121 years turned up three pages' worth of such conspirators, from Adolf Hitler and the African National Congress to the World Health Organization and Zionist villagers, catalogued into eight types: Left, Right, Communist, Capitalist, Government, Media, Foreign and Other (Freemasons, the AMA and even scientists). The common theme throughout is power—who has it and who wants it—and so the authors conclude their inquiry with an observation translated by Parent from Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (a conspiracy manual of sorts), for “the strong desire to rule, and the weak desire not to be ruled.” To those who so conspire, recall the motto of revolutionaries everywhere: sic semper tyrannis—thus always to tyrants. This article was originally published with the title "Conspiracy Central" ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com). His next book is The Moral Arc. Follow him on Twitter @michaelshermer
The latest conspiracy theory that is being spread is that Trump coordinated with the Russians to hack the 2016 presidential election. Sadly, this conspiracy theory is being spread by the majority of elected Democrats and shallow thinkers.
I agree. It is an astute observation you make. Conspiracy theories are equally popular across the political spectrum. Most likely there was no coordination, i.e. no conspiracy. The Russians, if they did anything, most likely did it on their own, and the Trump camps overtures toward the Russians are nothing more than a heartfelt expression of their gratitude. I doesn't hurt to look into the matter, but let's please not turn it into a Darrell Issa like circus. If the FBI does not turn up anything of real substance in a few months, let it go. Stop insisting there is something there when there is no solid evidence. Move on to productive stuff. If there are enough Republicans to get a special prosecutor appointed, fine. Go ahead, but make it quick. If there is nothing there , drop it. Move on. I don't want to be still hearing about this nonsense a year from now and no hard evidence of any Trump camp complicity has been turned up.
Is that as reliable as his Kenyan Birth Certificate? We all know that Book Jackets are legal substitutes for Birth Certificates. So I guess this settles the matter.
What is remarkable fantastic and very sad is that the right wing in America suffers from a collapsed rationality. How is it possible that when there is so much objective evidence against someone like Trump, their hero, they simply ignore it and call it fake. No matter what the evidence they will disagree and reject it. But the slightest shred of evidence of a very questionable nature that supports their beliefs becomes true 100 percent and beyond question. Trump says with scant evidence that Obama wire tapped him and its true and beyond question. The FBI says there is reason to believe Trump and Russia are in bed together and it is 100 percent false. How is it possible that a human mind can operate oblivious to the objective facts. If you ask an anorexic who is dying of starvation to look in the mirror and ask them what they see, they will think they are fat. They are skin and bones but they still think they are over weight. This is what we are dealing with when in comes to extremism whether it be a terrorist or a right wing fanatic. In these cases the emotional primitive center of the brain has hijacked the rational outer cortex. You are no longer able to act or see objectively because what you see is automatically filtered through your beliefs so can only see your beliefs and everything and anything can only exist in as much as it supports your beliefs. Remarkable that a human mind can operate blindly like a computer running its program. These people can be highly intelligent but they lack awareness and act and think automatically. They may catch a lie on CNN but everything FOX says, as long as it supports their beliefs, is the gospel truth. These people are not free, they are slaves to their beliefs. I write for those for whom there is hope not for those too far gone. Strive to stay balanced and avoid extremism of any kind. .
The fine print says there is no evidence of a trump russia connection. At the end of all the articles you read. And Sheriff Arpiao says there is evidence of the bc being fake. And you are a liar to insinuate otherwise.