On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs

David Robert Grimes

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147905

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On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs

David Robert Grimes

* E-mail: davidrobert.grimes@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
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On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs

David Robert Grimes

Published: January 26, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147905

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The Ultra Secret

Posted by rsawko on 27 Jan 2016 at 13:09 GMT

Nice attempt at rationalising the irrational. What about known conspiracies though? For instance Bletchley Park employed something like 10000 people and managed to keep the secret for more than 20 years. That's an order of magnitude higher than Table 4 suggests.

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