This is an oldie but a goodie that we are rereleasing while Marc celebrates his son's wedding. Conspiracy theories are everywhere, so we wanted to contextualize them. Please note, this is when we were still known as xtemporaneous and before we got our cool new podcasting equipment. If you want to hear more about conspiracies from us please see also: Flat Earth: episodes 2 and 3 Anti-Vax: episode 4 Qconspiracy: episodes 32 and 33 Our key sources are below. Does subliminal "advertising" actually work? It might: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sold-language/201101/subliminal-seduction-gets-second-glance Top Ten Conspiracy Theories: https://www.livescience.com/11375-top-ten-conspiracy-theories.html Bush Attack Ad with Rats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2Fl50_e8A Some historical Conspiracies: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/588240/historical-conspiracy-theories History of propaganda: https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-2-what-is-propaganda-(1944)/the-story-of-propaganda For a tidy list of some of the conspiracies that got sucked into the QAnon master conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marc-snediker/support
