Gee, Ya Think?
Mar. 21st, 2014 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingPaper #1: NASA faked the moon landing–Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science (pdf), a detailed study showing that kookery is cross-contaminatory: denial of global warming correlates strongly with antivaxxery, moon landing denial, racism, belief in reptoids, 9/11 twooferism, libertarianism, Birferism, Randroid free-market quackery, Niven-fandom, AIDS-denial, FOX News viewership, goldbuggery, etc.
This produced a predictable reaction: millions of words from idiots online, screaming that this was a giant false-flag operation by Big Climate and that it was all a huge conspiracy organised by the secret Jewish Communist Reptoids On The Moon cabal.
That predictable reaction was carefully measured, producing:
Paper #2: Recursive Fury: Conspiracist Ideation in the Blogosphere in Response to Research on Conspiracist Ideation (pdf), a study comparing their predicted reactions from wingnuts to the actual reactions of wingnuts.
University of Western Australia: mining bad thinking for comedy gold.
This produced a predictable reaction: millions of words from idiots online, screaming that this was a giant false-flag operation by Big Climate and that it was all a huge conspiracy organised by the secret Jewish Communist Reptoids On The Moon cabal.
That predictable reaction was carefully measured, producing:
Paper #2: Recursive Fury: Conspiracist Ideation in the Blogosphere in Response to Research on Conspiracist Ideation (pdf), a study comparing their predicted reactions from wingnuts to the actual reactions of wingnuts.
University of Western Australia: mining bad thinking for comedy gold.
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Date: 2014-03-21 08:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-24 09:34 am (UTC)Seriously, I wouldn't put it past them.