"This hugely entertaining book takes a hard, critical look at Truthers, Birthers, Holocaust deniers, anti-vaccine activists, Tea Partiers, and other conspiracy-minded groups. The key to understanding these various organizations, the author stresses, is to realize that they are not all nutballs, even if they believe nonsense............. The problem, the author points out, is that many people, hearing what sounds like a plausible argument, accept it without realizing that it is without factual foundation. Kay doesnt adopt the derisive tone of some who write about people whose ideas are outside the mainstream; this isnt a book about weird people and their weird ideas. Its a thought-provoking exploration of the conspiracist subculture that exists just under the surface of American society and its serious, but reparable, cognitive consequences.( Booklist) Check Our Catalog
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