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SUMMARY:If You Are Not A Conspiracy Theorist Then You are an Idiot - Charl
 es Pigden 
DTSTART:20131022T160000Z
DTEND:20131022T180000Z
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CONTACT:Tamsin Astbury
DESCRIPTION:a) A conspiracy theory is a theory that explains some event or
  events as due in\npart to a conspiracy\, that is\, to a secret plan to in
 fluence events by partly\nsecret means.\nb) Every historically and politic
 ally literate person employs the strategy of\nsometimes believing (and som
 etimes being prepared to believe) conspiracy\ntheories.\nAn open lecture w
 ith Charles Pigden supported by the Leverhulme funded Conspiracy and Democ
 racy Research Project:\nc) Every historically and politically literate per
 son is a conspiracy theorist.\nd) The only way not to be a conspiracy theo
 rist is to be historically and\npolitically illiterate that is to be\, in 
 the Greek sense of the word\, an idiot.\nf) Therefore if you are not a con
 spiracy theorist then you are an idiot.\n\nThe lecture will be followed by
  a wine reception.\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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