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“One of the points that I’ve picked up from reading about conspiracy theory over the years is that despite what some people think, it is not a harmless parlor game. It’s a very dangerous form of belief that can have dangerous and terrible consequences in the real world…Jonestown is a far more terrible, large-scale tragedy. One of the beauties of Tim Reiterman’s book is that he demonstrates how conspiracy theory contributed to Jim Jones’s decline. To begin with, Jones was more or less a garden variety con man. He used to do simple confidence tricks to impress his followers.” Read more...
