Wiki has an interesting summary of “Conspiracy Theory” here:
One of the really interesting things (mentioned in the Wiki article) is that advocates of conspiracies frequently believe in multiple conspiracies… even when one of their beliefs self-evidently contradicts another. For example, people who believe that Bin Laden was captured alive by US Forces are also likely to believe that he was killed before the raid on his hideout took place… even though both things obviously cannot be true.
There’s also a page on the above-mentioned David Icke, who “introduced the reptoid hypothesis in [his book] The Biggest Secret (1999), which identified the Brotherhood [of Babylon] as descendants of reptilians from the constellation Draco, who walk on two legs and appear human, and who live in tunnels and caverns inside the earth. He argues that the reptilians are the race of gods known as the Anunnaki in the Babylonian creation myth, Enûma Eliš. According to Michael Barkun [the political science expert], Icke's idea of “inner-earth reptilians” is not new, though he has done more than most to expand it":
One of the really interesting things (mentioned in the Wiki article) is that advocates of conspiracies frequently believe in multiple conspiracies… even when one of their beliefs self-evidently contradicts another. For example, people who believe that Bin Laden was captured alive by US Forces are also likely to believe that he was killed before the raid on his hideout took place… even though both things obviously cannot be true.
There’s also a page on the above-mentioned David Icke, who “introduced the reptoid hypothesis in [his book] The Biggest Secret (1999), which identified the Brotherhood [of Babylon] as descendants of reptilians from the constellation Draco, who walk on two legs and appear human, and who live in tunnels and caverns inside the earth. He argues that the reptilians are the race of gods known as the Anunnaki in the Babylonian creation myth, Enûma Eliš. According to Michael Barkun [the political science expert], Icke's idea of “inner-earth reptilians” is not new, though he has done more than most to expand it":
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