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Conspiracy Addiction with Stephanie Kemmerer

January 09, 2024 Spencer Episode 69
Conspiracy Addiction with Stephanie Kemmerer
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Truth Unrestricted
Conspiracy Addiction with Stephanie Kemmerer
Jan 09, 2024 Episode 69
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In what ways are conspiracy beliefs psychologically addictive?  Can a person get a "good feeling" from a turn down the rabbit hole that they would want to experience a second time?

Links
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-studied-brains-more-800-prisoners-heres-what-they-found
https://www.jta.org/2020/04/07/ny/memory-plays-tricks-about-mengele
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/amanda-moore-undercover-far-right/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory#Frazzledrip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/35734-anti-trump-cult-expert-mistakes-porn-for-highly-sophisticated-mind-control.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

Stephanie Kemmerer's List of Links
DOUBTIsTheWayOut@proton.me
American Information Integrity Alliance

Podcasts: 
Escaping the Rabbit Hole podcast: “How a Former Conspiracy Theorist Escaped the Rabbit Hole.” 
Conspirituality podcast: “Recovering from Conspiracy Theories”
The Q Dropped podcast: “I Escaped the Rabbit Hole”
Pursuing Truth podcast: Ep 29 “Conspiracy Theories” 
Recovering from Religion: Ep 146: “Exiting the Rabbit Hole: From Red Pill to Recovery” 
True Crimespiracy podcast
The Doug Stanhope podcast Ep. 440: “Tim Dillon's Underpants and Other Conspiracy Theories” 
Point of Inquiry: “Behind The Mind of a Conspiracy Theorist” 
Adventures In HellWQrld Ep 43: “Cuba, Tuck, France and Audits with Existential Dread Locks” 
"Found Money" Poker & Politics and Steph's series debunking, "Loose Change." 
D.O.U.B.T. - Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together - video podcast with former QAnon follower, Jitarth Jadeja and former conspiracy theorist Brent Lee 

Articles: 
Chatting "Even the Podcast Is Afraid" with Jared Ordis - Rue Morgue
The Unexplained Files - Wikipedia
Steph's Patreon articles
Steph's AIPT Comics author page and articles
Steph's Free Inquiry author page and article 
Steph's Skeptical Inquirer author page, articles and presentation 
“I’m a Former Sandy Hook Truther, Believe Me When I Say Alex Jones is Dangerous”
IMDB

Presentations and Panels: 
Presentation for the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix: "What Conspiracy Theories Steal from Us." 
Panel: Secular AZ - Secular Summit 2022: “When Reason Prevails” 
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science 
A Very QAnon Christmas - New York City Skeptics

Show Notes

In what ways are conspiracy beliefs psychologically addictive?  Can a person get a "good feeling" from a turn down the rabbit hole that they would want to experience a second time?

Links
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-studied-brains-more-800-prisoners-heres-what-they-found
https://www.jta.org/2020/04/07/ny/memory-plays-tricks-about-mengele
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/amanda-moore-undercover-far-right/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory#Frazzledrip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis
https://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/35734-anti-trump-cult-expert-mistakes-porn-for-highly-sophisticated-mind-control.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

Stephanie Kemmerer's List of Links
DOUBTIsTheWayOut@proton.me
American Information Integrity Alliance

Podcasts: 
Escaping the Rabbit Hole podcast: “How a Former Conspiracy Theorist Escaped the Rabbit Hole.” 
Conspirituality podcast: “Recovering from Conspiracy Theories”
The Q Dropped podcast: “I Escaped the Rabbit Hole”
Pursuing Truth podcast: Ep 29 “Conspiracy Theories” 
Recovering from Religion: Ep 146: “Exiting the Rabbit Hole: From Red Pill to Recovery” 
True Crimespiracy podcast
The Doug Stanhope podcast Ep. 440: “Tim Dillon's Underpants and Other Conspiracy Theories” 
Point of Inquiry: “Behind The Mind of a Conspiracy Theorist” 
Adventures In HellWQrld Ep 43: “Cuba, Tuck, France and Audits with Existential Dread Locks” 
"Found Money" Poker & Politics and Steph's series debunking, "Loose Change." 
D.O.U.B.T. - Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together - video podcast with former QAnon follower, Jitarth Jadeja and former conspiracy theorist Brent Lee 

Articles: 
Chatting "Even the Podcast Is Afraid" with Jared Ordis - Rue Morgue
The Unexplained Files - Wikipedia
Steph's Patreon articles
Steph's AIPT Comics author page and articles
Steph's Free Inquiry author page and article 
Steph's Skeptical Inquirer author page, articles and presentation 
“I’m a Former Sandy Hook Truther, Believe Me When I Say Alex Jones is Dangerous”
IMDB

Presentations and Panels: 
Presentation for the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix: "What Conspiracy Theories Steal from Us." 
Panel: Secular AZ - Secular Summit 2022: “When Reason Prevails” 
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science 
A Very QAnon Christmas - New York City Skeptics