BBC News: Take the Conspiracy Test ...See how you Score/Promo for New Series.

BBC NEWS
Conspiracy test
A new BBC TV series explores some of the biggest and most troubling conspiracy theories of modern times.


BBC TWO: THE CONSPIRACY FILES
Sunday at 9pm, BBC Two

Do you trust everything you are told or do you think there is usually truth in conspiracies?

Psychologist Dr Patrick Leman, of the Royal Holloway University of London, has devised a test to see how conspiratorial you are.

Once you have answered all 15 questions press submit and we will calculate your score. You will then be able to read Dr Leman's analysis.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/6161425.stm

When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing

by William M. Arkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, Feb. 1, 1999

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm

"" By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.

Steiner was hardly the first or last victim to be spoofed by Papcun's team members. To refine their method, they took various high quality recordings of generals and experimented with creating fake statements. One of the most memorable is Colin Powell stating "I am being treated well by my captors."

"They chose to have him say something he would never otherwise have said," chuckled one of Papcun's colleagues. ""

26-50

"Your responses indicate that you have a medium level of belief in conspiracy theories. You may well be quite trusting of your close friends, partners, those you work with and others but sometimes cannot be sure of all of them all of the time. You may also feel that your voice in terms of wider political decisions is rarely heard or acted upon, perhaps because government and big business is more concerned with their own interests than with those of the average person."

HA! Take that, all you crazies who've secretly banded together to denounce me as a rabid conspiracy theorist!

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to pull my post....I'll let it stay...but I thought the questions were very biased to make anyone answering sound like a conspiracy theorist. :D

I had to answer "Don't Know" several times because the choices were not nuanced enough..it seemed to me.

"Don't know" wasn't the correct choice, rather it was the only choice. "No opinion" or "Not sure" would have been better. Since when is "Don't know" the only thing between agreeing or disagreeing?

It was all a set up designed by the powers that be to make us look bad. :)

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... and I'm having an entire tinfoil suit made!

I'm trustworthy, my friends are trustworthy, and governments (some more than others) have made themselves untrustworthy by continuously violating our trust.

BBC has this link next to the new story on new questions about David Kelly's suicide. Maybe BBC was pressured to do the placement...since their News Chief was forced to resign over the Kelly incident and BBC came under pressure after that.

But, then to suggest that definitely makes me a conspiracy theorist...

I read a book about Frank Olsen who worked for the Army and CIA in Fort Detrick on Bio weapons and
he threw himself out his hotel room window. He fell to the pavement thirteen stories below and died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson

"Eric Olson had his father's body exhumed. The forensic scientist in charge of the examination, Professor James E. Starrs of the George Washington University, determined that Olson had suffered some form of blunt force trauma prior to falling out of the window, and called the evidence "rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide". Based on his findings, in 1996 the Manhattan district attorney opened a homicide investigation into Olson's death, but was unable to find enough evidence to bring charges."




A Chomsky quote: “It’s precisely the opposite of conspiracy theory, actually … ‘conspiracy theory’ has become the intellectual equivalent of a four-letter word: it’s something people say when they don’t want you to think about what’s really going on.”

aren't they supposed to be spending their entire CAREERS looking for conspiracies?

does that make them crazy?

It's most telling that the first question regards the assassination of President Kennedy. That is when Uncle Sam made it official policy to denigrate "conspiracy theorists."

Countering Criticism of the Warren Report

My results:



Interesting how they mix questions about my "closest friends" with questions about trusting "government." All the while, the concern of Big Brother oozes from between the lines.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, KoKo01.



I have my own ideas concerning 22 November 1963...

Celebrated authors demand that the CIA come clean on JFK assassination
Gerald Posner, Norman Mailer and Don DeLillo back lawsuit to open secret files on CIA mystery man tied to Lee Harvey Oswald.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/12/17/joannides/index.html

New book by Joan Mellen, A Farewell To Justice, outlines the intell ties to JFK's murder

http://www.joanmellen.net/

Maybe Posner, Mailer et al learned they'd better get out in front of this before the egg hits their faces.

but I ALSO got a 26-50....the only score reported so far-a coincidence-I think not.....

:tinfoilhat:

:D

with 5 being the 'I don't trust ...' option. But since some questions are about your friends, and a couple are pretty bizarre for anyone (the 'moon landings' and 'government covers up aliens' questions), you can say you're convinced JFK was a conspiracy, the WTC was done by 'certain Western governments', and Diana wasn't an accident, and you'll still fit in this category, as long as you basically trust your closest friends -you'll get 50 or under (max is 75). Meanwhile, to get 25 or under (remembering the minimum is 15), you not only have to not believe any theories, but trust politicians and think you can make a real difference in public affairs. So anyone who is sceptical about most 'conspiracy' theories, but just a bit cynical, like myself, will fall in the same 26-50 grouping.

"Your responses suggest you have a high level of belief in conspiracy theories. You might have reason not to trust others, even people close to you. You may also feel that you are an outsider in terms of society and the political and business decisions that large organisations make."

Well...I did have a split second of wondering whether they were tracking my location... :) :tinfoilhat:

26-50
Your responses indicate that you have a medium level of belief in conspiracy theories. You may well be quite trusting of your close friends, partners, those you work with and others but sometimes cannot be sure of all of them all of the time. You may also feel that your voice in terms of wider political decisions is rarely heard or acted upon, perhaps because government and big business is more concerned with their own interests than with those of the average person.

I guess if you're not all 1's or 5's you're a 26er.

51-75

Your responses suggest you have a high level of belief in conspiracy theories. You might have reason not to trust others, even people close to you. You may also feel that you are an outsider in terms of society and the political and business decisions that large organisations make.

Your responses indicate that you have a medium level of belief in conspiracy theories. You may well be quite trusting of your close friends, partners, those you work with and others but sometimes cannot be sure of all of them all of the time. You may also feel that your voice in terms of wider political decisions is rarely heard or acted upon, perhaps because government and big business is more concerned with their own interests than with those of the average person.