Reading: "Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories"
I want to recommend a book I just started reading last night: "Suspicious Minds," by Rob Brotherton. As is usual, I read first the chapter that stuck out -- Chapter 5, The Paranoid Fringe. It takes a useful critical look at the seminal article by Richard Hofstadter -- "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" -- and also runs to ground a plausible origin of 'tinfoil hats.'
The book is written in a wry conversational tone, and is not on the surface a ''scholarly" read thick with endless foo
From the blog "Friends and Foes"
I then asked for cites or sources of the rumours of child trafficking, murder and Schiff which you posted. In other words, "Where, where are the rumours coming from, Jon?"
As it turns out, the rumours originated with Q and Q-whisperers.
I don't know why you did not simply refer readers to your source or sources of the rumours -- or post a link to one of the Q-whisperers. I added in above what I believe were the sources/origin points.
-- next time, I will first ask: do you