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Hello, welcome to Quarks & Co. Do you really believe what is spread in the news because we citizens are not being manipulated, maybe not even on a large scale, and it is not just a few people who control us? Exactly what lies behind the idea of ​​a conspiracy theory and they are widespread, often large events are needed. Take the 9/11 attack as an example and the question is what really happened. If you do a survey in Germany, you find that 38 percent. of people ages 39 and younger believe the U.S. government is actually behind this attack. Or another example: the moon landing in the US in the summer of 1969.

One in five people, or 20 percent, believe that Americans have never been to the moon, that it was all simply staged in the studios of Hollywood. Conspiracy theories have a tradition that dates back to French times, for example, in the revolution, back then there were Freemasons, anarchists, Jacobins and the nobility spread the rumor that they were plotting against the nation. Now what happened back then is also happening today in some ways and that obviously means that if you look more closely at the US election campaign in the 2016 US election campaign, who will be the 45th president of the United States since 2008, Barack.

Obama is in power an alien who comes from the home planet of Franz Joseph. Many Americans actually believe that his president is a reptile and is an alien in human form and at least twelve million citizens are convinced that he is the devil and is the real person Donald Trump. In 2011, a rumor spread that Obama was not born in the US and therefore was not allowed to govern the country. Not even his birth certificate could convince the skeptics. Conspiracy theories are always theories of power. Ultimately, they always explain who is pulling the strings in the background and who. is really in control and since we commonly refer to the American president as the most powerful man in the world, conspiracy theories almost automatically revolve around the American president, whether exposing what the true motives of an American president are or exposing who he is. really who. pulls the strings and for whom this president only acts as a puppet John F.

Kennedy is considered a victim by conspiracy theorists and the SHL of mafia conventions. Theories are diverse but, unlike him, most presidents are seen as perpetrators. he organized the moon landing in a movie studio to demonstrate to the entire world his power in the cold war and george hw bush had to tell about the imminent attack on the world trade center or even blow up the towers, according to one in three americans. Bush wanted to legitimize his oil wars as President Franklin Roosevelt and Paul Haber were supposed to have done. The 1941 attack deliberately exposed him to force his country into World War II, but in reality the fate of the US was secretly controlled.

From the beginning, George Washington, the first president, was replaced by Adam Weishaupt, the German founder of the Order of the Illuminati, George Washington himself was afraid of the party that was just emerging with his help. He believed that foreign powers could destroy. A little later, William Lincoln saw all of America's democratic institutions infiltrated by wealthy slave owners and overlooked the true conspiracy that many American presidents essentially fell victim to in 1865. In fact, over a long, long period of At one time, everyone was a conspiracy theorist for the simple reason that it was completely normal to be a conspiracy theorist.

Conspiracy theorists in the 18th, 19th, and well into the 20th centuries were not simply crazy people on the fringes of society as we sometimes imagine today. but rather they were elite conspiracy theories that were common knowledge and therefore believed by the president, believed by intellectuals, believed by scientists, believed by other politicians and, consequently, spread by everyone against people who only when a new president arrives at the White House he does. He discovers the whole truth about how everything was possible. It's in a unique, super-secret file that many American citizens firmly believe in. I would also like to know the file.

There are now hundreds of conspiracy theories, some of which are long-time favorites. last for centuries Fifth place on our list of targets descendants of a ruling race that lives among us keeping legends full of snakes for some a proof of aliens that landed on earth centuries ago these reptiles are now finished as humans families like the world fountain or the bush clan It is said that of the more than 1,000 Germans surveyed, 15 know the theory, but only four percent believe in it. The Assassination of Princess Diana Officially, Lady Diana died in a car accident. According to them, the British secret services had been on the conscience for years.

An officer is said to have blinded the driver with a strobe. The reason was a secret pregnancy of Jana and a Muslim grandson who was not central to the British royal family. More than 90 percent of respondents know the theory and almost a third believe it is true. Third place in the Illuminati Order dominates the world. The Illuminati secret society was founded in 1776. The enlightenment club also included celebrities such as Goethe. Politically the Illuminati had little. Conspiracy theorists, on the other hand, believe that the Illuminati still exists in secret, such as in the American student Connection Carlsen Bones.

Nine out of ten respondents know this theory, almost half believe it. It is a bubble that explodes 2 your Bermuda Triangle The fact is that an unusually large number of planes and ships disappear in this area. Officially, the treacherous currents and winds are to blame. Atlantis is in the game or even aliens. Almost all respondents know this. theory and almost one in two people think it's true Number one in our top 5 The 9/11 attacks are officially the work of Islamist terrorists For some, the Bush administration is also behind the attacks As a pretext for wars in the Middle East.

Almost all respondents have heard of this theory, more than half believe it is true. Conspiracy theories are increasingly relevant to society. This can also be noticed, for example, in the wordless press. What I do here is fishing. Now thanks to social networks, thanks to the Internet, all this is getting bigger and, as I said, it is also acquiring political relevance and that is why the EU has decided to investigate these conspiracy theories. a little closer There was a first meeting in Brussels with scientists and three of us were there. The discoveries of how widespread some conspiracy theories are really surprised me and that's very important.

Conspiracy theorists are not mentally ill, they are normal citizens like you. Probably each of us is receptive. I'm fascinated by the question: Can we figure out how at least one person can help us get away from conspiracy theories a little bit? I find it a very exciting topic. This belief has such strong roots. About people. The most interesting question for me right now is how the feeling of not belonging, being at a disadvantage, suffering from the fact that others have more than you, all these feelings. So there are a number of interesting questions that can lead to a conspiracy.

Theories We will be attentive. Now we have accompanied a scientist in a demonstration in which a conspiracy issue is also discussed. A demonstration against geoengineering is studying the theory of manipulating toxic substances. climate and weather and it no longer had a blue sky until I read it for years and this year Wikipedia removed it from the record because there is nothing but a blue sky anymore because the sky is constantly The sky over Germany is veiled, poisonously hazy by these artificial cisterns that are certainly not capable of reproducing. This is real, but this fog has been watching the sky for years and had contrails and veiled clouds as evidence of chemical climate control, climate control to wait, the.

The boss is trying this here to find out what the stated objective is and that has some parts, even back then it had 992, the first issue of nissan swing in the New York Times. We have to darken the sun to create a certain back reflection of the sun. Radiation, which was his thesis, the psychologist has the distribution and popularity. Conspiracy theories have been intensively researched and, although many seem strange, the definition of a conspiracy theory is quite sober. A conspiracy theory must meet three criteria: On the one hand, it must describe. a collective action that aims at a goal must be seen by those who believe that something is planned as illegitimate or Sebastian Bartoschek also looks for these three criteria in the Berlin demonstration, which really does what, yes, likes to do what.

Gosh, ask the military of conscience, point to the front, population designation, the federal government. The MOZ federal government has who is doing what they are doing there now, we only need the planes if they really can. Get closer scientifically. I have a camera like this that you can take pictures of. You can see exactly where these so-called stelae have not existed for a long time. Because the engines have double mandate and these double Meindl engines there are no wakes when. For example, the Federal Environment Agency says the following because we know that they have not measured aluminum barrels for years.

Understand that Bartoschek's nose isn't just interested in conspiracy theories when they sound strange. In fact, they may be important for survival. Of course, conspiracy theories still have a protective function. If I believe in conspiracy theories then I am more careful than someone who doesn't believe in conspiracy theories and the exciting thing is that there is a conspiracy out there and humans have done it. Well, protecting yourself evolutionarily and then of course doing the balancing act between where it remains a reasonable skepticism and where it becomes a completely irrational thought structure; That is a very exciting path.

To understand this, Bartoschek also studies repeating theories. The Earth depicted here by the now deceased conspiracy theorist Axis Stoll Geophysicist Journal. Even during the German Reich there is no risk that greenery also existed in the earth's crust and upper mantle, but representatives of the ancient decline of advanced cultures were also on vacation. Getting sick from various beings as if we were not alone is very earthy, however, the American embassy in Berlin, just a few hundred meters from the demonstration, reminded Bastian Bartoschek of a well-documented conspiracy theory With consequences for millions of people, We were all quite surprised when it became known that the email traffic of German citizens was being monitored on a large scale by the American secret services and that this is actually a conspiracy that existed and perhaps still exists and that we are doing well to be careful with it. protect our privacy in geoengineering the facts seem to be more difficult with the help of the climate, don't forget, so in Germany, this is definitely a multifunctional issue, clearly, definitely, they asked what we do when the facts are in evidence. table lie and they have just been recognized here when the facts are on the table it turns around there is almost a little pain and what is rich the other way around they put the facts on the table or there is nothing they have proof of the things that are already there there now you still have to open your eyes and just look and read almost she said for you you just read it everyone looks and hates at home so far I haven't found anything that has convinced me of an irrational thought structure or at least a pit -Skepticism founded of the protesters could not convince Bartoschek and the size used of this example one thing can be seen: there is an alleged phenomenon and then there are explanations, some of which are sprinkled with scientific terms and everything is based on a Now, in such cases it is difficult to argue why, as a scientist, you would try.

But there is more and more evidence, research, facts, at some point you feel overwhelmed and in the end you hear that you are suppressing the facts. Now we find conspiracy theories. For example, we recently did a program on

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on the topic of advice and we have already heard something about the Jewish world conspiracy. Well, then we get emails and it says they have the scepter in their hand. Germany is not a sovereign state. Basically, we are ruled by elected puppets and the idea behind this is that the world is ruled by a Zionist community. We are all over the government in the big banks andWe are all basically disempowered.

Now this idea goes back to an old conspiracy theory and if you look closely, it is really dangerous. This is one of the worst incendiary writings in history. It is the fuse of one of the most perfidious conspiracy theories of all. more than 100 years and continues to this day Berlin 1919 it has been a year since they learned about the First World War people are deeply restless, they are looking for explanations for the defeat and culprits this year the first copies of a stranger appear in Berlin document. the Zionist protocols are supposedly copies of a secret meeting of Jewish leaders their goal world domination the strategy another violent overthrow of governments, takeover of the press in the turbulent postwar period, the environment is favorable for conspiracy theories of all kinds.

Ideas are always particularly widespread when it comes to processes of political, economic or social upheaval, and precisely at the moment after the end of the First World War, the Jews in particular are said to have conspired, many are all too willing to believe in this. , anti-Semitism is widespread, and in fact there was a world congress of Zionists 20 years earlier. Zionists are concerned with a Jewish national state, not world domination, but such details are only of interest unless the protocols are disseminated quickly. In 1923 the eighth edition was published. Anti-Semites, such as the up-and-coming MS Therapy, successfully used the publication to conduct propaganda and smear campaigns against political opponents.

In 1922, Minister Walter Rathenau was a Democrat and Jewish. His murderers referred to the protocols. But there are also those who doubt the authenticity of the document, because parts of a 19th century novel show striking similarities to the protocols. Other passages are almost identical in an old political pamphlet from 1934. A Swiss court officially stated that these were the protocols. To this day it has not been clarified whether it was a falsification, but historical facts do not prevent the triumph of the protocols. The writing also sells well in France and the United States. For the rest, the Henry Ford automobile factory helps spread the legend.

It is more likely that we are talking about a conspiracy myth, that is, a matter of faith, and one is not particularly interested in proving exactly that these protocols are a true story. document The protocols have their most terrible effect, but in National Socialist Germany it culminates in the persecution and murder of six million Jews. After the victory over Nazi Germany, anti-Semitism in Europe was filmed for a time. political weapon, but the conspiracy myth found a new breeding ground in other parts of the Middle East with the founding of the state of Israel. The superiority of the small Jewish state made the Protocols a bestseller.

Arab countries are still rising today. We still explain the viability of the State of Israel through an alleged Jewish conspiracy and see the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a key witness document. Today, the Zionist Protocols are omnipresent in Islamic media and continue to do so today. A political weapon? The Palestinian organization Hamas refers in its program to the protocols as proof of Israel's desire for expansion and Jewish control over the world. 100 years after their appearance, the Zionist protocols defy clarification to this day. how persistent conspiracy theories are and in the concrete example you realize how dangerous they are.

The only question is how do conspiracy theories arise? Psychology is still young in the field, but it is beginning to give us some explanations. You are an example. You see a pattern like that and the question is: do you recognize something in it? Now, in this specific case, maybe we could agree that there is a chair there, but now psychologists do this: they put test subjects in a chair. state of uncertainty, a state where you are afraid of losing, so imagine that you would lose your job and then you show these people exactly patterns like this and the interesting thing is that when people are uneasy, they suddenly see something in the patterns in which there is actually nothing to see, which shows that we then have a special openness to conspiracy theories or at least to their beginnings.

Now in psychology there is more knowledge about how a conspiracy theory arises in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In a state of shock, more than 3,000 dead, the United States, defenseless against such attacks, cannot control the terror. Scientists know that it is not surprising that conspiracy theories about 9/11 will soon emerge. They suspect that an intense sense of insecurity and loss of control promote the emergence. of conspiracy theories is human beings' own need to have a feeling of control and to be able to predict and understand why something happens and that is why we are much less inclined to believe that something is pure coincidence or just bad luck.

Rather, I think someone somewhere is pulling the strings. There really was a volcano on September 1, the secret services had no clues as to how the terrorists got in unmolested, why we, the interceptors, didn't stop the planes. A whole chain of unfavorable circumstances that point to an unfavorable situation. perfidious plan an explanatory pattern was presented to our brain trying to find a pattern putting it together making connections we do this almost automatically in order to explain the world to ourselves The new theory brings order to the supposed chaos, not uncontrollable terrorists, But the president of the United States himself The United States could have ordered the attacks.

From the scientists' point of view, a clear picture of the perpetrators can increase the appeal of conspiracy theories and then allow conspiracy theories to point the finger at someone. guilt and that is why conspiracy theories, of course, ultimately have a utopian dimension, because they imagine a world in which a victory over conspiracy would be possible, at least in the distant future, it could simply be rejected, e.g. President Bush, but what? It was a motive for the crime that Bush organized the terrorist attack to justify the attack on Iraq. Air strikes were also useful for this stage because Bush blew up the buildings.

They were too stable and could be destroyed by planes. The number of arguments grows when we believe in a conspiracy theory. Let us filter our perception very intelligently to find exactly the evidence that supports our theory. Take the 9/11 attacks. When many architects say that of course a building collapses when a plane explodes in it, then they are simply described as part of the conspiracy and ignored, but if another architect says that it is impossible for this building to collapse because of the planes, then it is welcome as proof of the theory. Contrary arguments are becoming less and less acceptable.

A conspiracy theory can become an ideology. , especially when supporters of the theory come together and act as a group against criticism. Shielding, there is a plan and of course you are the one who understands the plan and that really makes you stand out from the crowd while most people are walking down the street. world as conspiracy theorists would say with their eyes closed. Conspiracy theorists are those who have understood that something is really happening and that, of course, is also a confirmation of one's own identity. It gives you the feeling of belonging. the 9/11 conspiracy or whatever.

In the end, 9/11 conspiracy theories seem more complicated than the official declaration of a terrorist attack. What makes them so attractive? Conspiracy theories often seem to be thought out with great care and detail, for example the 9/11 one. They offer many arguments that seem convincing, but most of the time those theories are essentially based on this primary fear. There is a large and powerful group that wants something bad for all of us. attack on the World Trade Center, you can see how a complicated conspiracy theory can emerge step by step and whoever believes in it eventually finds it difficult to break away from it.

Now everything is reinforced by the fact that sometimes there are. things that are At first it seems like a conspiracy theory, but then it turns out to be an example of it: the NSA scandal, if one had claimed before the summer of 2013 that the international secret services were listening to us on a large scale. At one time, people were labeled crazy or conspiracy theorists, but after the AdWords revelations we know that reality is possibly even more absurd than conspiracy theorists' fantasies. There are examples where the seemingly absurd were actually revelations and conspiracies. Theories have a parallel, they always start with something that is crucial, that is, doubt about a common explanation, Burkhard Weiss shows us how this works using a simple example.

I watched speeches and discussions by various conspiracy theorists and my thesis is that relatively. Simple people are convinced of a conspiracy theory and that is what the evidence says. The app tells you something by the fact that you have your magazine. I know it's a shame, but they had published a cartoon that I think was against Islam and that's why the attack. It could have been against the states. They wildly shot and killed many editors. They wanted to strike a blow against the free world and that was a symbol. But do you know who carried out the terrorist attack by the Islamists?

If I told you that it's not the whole truth. This is certainly not the case because we do not have optimal training. You also think that people were controlled. For example, you dismiss criticism because perhaps everything was controlled by one of the. people who committed the terrorist attack. You found an identification card in the car. The ID card is there. Let him be, okay, so I openly ask myself, please tell me why I let one out of my car. Everything is exactly the question that foreigners have. It doesn't make any sense to me. Even as a first reaction, I find it a bit obvious.

I have to do what I'm planning. I would like you to present my identity document to me. Of course, it seems that someone has imposed it on him or maybe it is still late in coming. Now I look at conservative parties and right-wing populist parties like Marie Le Pen, the political party. The National Front in France has seen an incredible increase and the FPD in Austria here the AfG in Germany and thinks that playing the course is perfectly illegal every day not only do they somehow evaluate its purposes but perhaps they are involved in its planning in the broadest sense.

From what I believe, when I look at all these indications, the capacity for outcry has increased. Nothing can be ruled out, but neither can it be directly assumed. That could very well be possible. If you speculate again, that's actually nothing. Otherwise, our topic today is conspiracy theories and doubts. We are dealing with the fact that doubting per se always has power, for example, if the question from the beginning ensures that there is nothing left. than we think, I'm already sending the message that I have more information than you and that's a bit of a psychological structure that makes you say yes, I suspect there is more, but I don't want to reveal what you are less informed about.

It may simply be a coincidence that the ID card in the car love how often something has happened to you by chance that did not go as planned, I have thought about it from time to time and now it is becoming very interesting, that is what this fact highlights of the region that would be something to consider, okay, that's totally illogical, but how many illogical things happen every day. I'm really surprised at how simple the means were to unsettle almost everyone. Although not everyone followed the wrong theory to the end, that's where we are. Questioning and doubting people's things is in our nature and that is what science thrives on.

Basically, doubt is a really smart thing. Nothing is easier than sowing doubts. It's that easy and doubt is usually the first chapter in creating a conspiracy theory, but then something comes into play: self-reinforcement, especially through social media. ideal breeding ground for the emergence of conspiracy theories and we will explain it to you with a very specific example: the Grafing train station, Bavaria. In May 2016, a young man stabbed himself with a knife, apparently at random, and became the scene of a tragedy. Passers-by, a man dies, three others are injured, the police are still not clear about the background role on the Internet, there is already a wave of speculation about inconsistencies, then there is even talk of false fingerprints, the perpetrator appears mentally confused in order to distract himself from an Islamist background.

Blogger Marco Delgardo spread the rumor all over the world and also calls the perpetrator Luffy Josef. This theory takes on a life of its own, spreading through Twitter and Facebook and, therefore,Therefore, it is increasingly credible because it is constant. Repetition creates the appearance of truth, as demonstrated time and again by the studies of Julia Silber Berlin, who fights conspiracy theories on the Internet with her project Golden Almut. Because of viral spread, her work often resembles a fight against windmills. about these things is that they simply spread more on the Internet. Some people who normally aren't even interested in them.

Interested, scroll next to that briefly to find out without scrolling and then continue and little by little it becomes an urban legend, that's luck. For many people it's not based on conspiracy theories anymore, it's just that that's general education. Yes, I already heard that I would say that many people think that this is true and do not verify it further. Many things are. shared without reflection. Nothing is easier than using simple rhetoric to sow doubts and feed the original thesis of fanatical murderers. Now Paul H supposedly writes the blogger Delgado and thus also supports the theory of the cover-up by the police and the video.

It's easy for conspiracy theories on Facebook Researchers in Italy have shown that they have been studying for years how conspiracy theories spread compared to scientific articles. Both levels of high spontaneous interest are often shared among science users, but interest soon fades. On the other hand, they reach more and more people Another reason why conspiracy theories on the Internet fall on fertile ground The so-called Schiltern bubble The theory behind How to shout on the Internet This is how it sounds, for example, the theory of the lying press that no The traditional media no longer believes and shares the corresponding articles, they mainly reflect their own world of thoughts and therefore reinforce their worldview.

By the way, journalists can also encounter this echo. Filter bubbles are created by algorithms of Internet companies like Facebook, but now Facebook is of course interested in it. Heat only includes things that are relevant to you, otherwise you would do a bad job. They want you to come back and use them intensively as well. In Facebook News Feed, Google also remembers the user's likes and displays a less personalized search result. The simple thing is that you just click on the vegetables with the browser you always use and see what messages are presented right there. on a computer If you haven't used it before, go to Google News again and then see how the news there differs in detail and also in terms of what you would face.

Established media has a hard time with the new. information culture, then I would say that the sovereignty of interpretation has changed. As for the news, a lot has changed. In the 80s and 90s there was still a very strong dominance of national newspapers, as well as distant news. The comments came and also determined the news. Public discussion has become fluid with the advent of social media. So to speak, the news resonates there, but the interpretation of what that means has been detached from the media that publishes it and you can see that basically the sovereignty of interpretation.

It no longer depends so much on professional journalism and has then transferred much more to reference groups. Even with their data professionally researched, the established media no longer penetrates through social media. Nowadays, many people find newspaper content on social media, but yes. You don't get what they asked for. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has it in just 15 minutes. He posts a message on his Facebook page, my new post, but only 15 percent of this content reaches the rest during the laser tests. The Bavarian LKA was forced to react to the theory that the perpetrator was lying, but it was a conspiracy theory.

This is in a way the dilemma of our m

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n media landscape, because never before have there been so many information channels, just think of the entire Internet, social networks, YouTube channels, television, radio or messenger and with all this diversity , the truth threatens to get lost at some point in the noise made by the media and they take advantage of that, sometimes absurd conspiracy theories like never before. Independent and credible journalism has been as important as it is today in the sense that no, they are loyal to us and recommend us to others. I really liked that and since we are in the spending mood today, we are donating here.

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