The most important thing you can ever read about conspiracy theories

Ben Rothke
2 min readApr 5, 2020
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Conspiratorial ideation is the tendency of individuals to believe that events and power relations are secretly manipulated by certain clandestine groups and organizations.

This academic paper by Dr. David Robert Grimes ‘On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs’, shows that large conspiracies, those over 1000 agents, quickly become untenable and…

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Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.