Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This episode is drawn from the archives of my old Critical Thinker podcast, which aired 18 episodes between 2010 and 2011. The last three episodes were on the topic of conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

In this episode I assemble and edit the audio from those last three episodes, and add a new introduction, where I discuss why I didn't return to the podcast after these episodes, and the continuing relevance of these topics today.

kevindelaplante.com/033-critical-thinking-about-conspiracies

Some important ideas here that are worth returning to!

Topics discussed in this episode include:

- the definition of a conspiracy, and a conspiracy theory

- local vs global conspiracies

- default skepticism about conspiracies

- 9-11, the Moon Landings, the New World Order, mind control technologies, and other conspiracy theory examples

- real government conspiracies: COINTELPRO (FBI), MK-ULTRA (CIA)

- falsifiable and unfalsifiable conspiracies

- lessons each side can learn

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