The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies
From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2009
272 pages
978-1-4405-0442-6 (ISBN)
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Did the noble order of the Knights Templar guard a secret about Jesus' birth?
Was the moon landing faked in a Hollywood movie studio?
Is the government keeping the remains of an alien spacecraft in the top-secret Area 51?
Monte Cook takes a look at conspiracy theories?ranging from the historically complex to the seriously whacked out. With a disbelieving eye, he traces the history of some of the world's weirdest ideas and even includes a chart showing readers how to make up conspiracy theories for themselves.
Scattered through the book are the paranoid "notes" of an anonymous reader who claims to know what's really going on. You can make up your own mind as to who's telling the truth!
Was the moon landing faked in a Hollywood movie studio?
Is the government keeping the remains of an alien spacecraft in the top-secret Area 51?
Monte Cook takes a look at conspiracy theories?ranging from the historically complex to the seriously whacked out. With a disbelieving eye, he traces the history of some of the world's weirdest ideas and even includes a chart showing readers how to make up conspiracy theories for themselves.
Scattered through the book are the paranoid "notes" of an anonymous reader who claims to know what's really going on. You can make up your own mind as to who's telling the truth!
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The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies
From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the Real Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Strike-Through "Controversial" Insert "Covered Up" Conspiracy Theories
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10/2009
Adams Media Corporation
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Monte Cook (Milwaukee, WI) has written and edited extensively in the realm of role-playing games and fantasy fiction. He was a creator of the third edition of the most famous role-playing game ever, Dungeons & Dragons. He was also the author and designer of the role-playing game Dark Matter, a game in which players take on the roles of investigators of conspiracies and the paranormal. He researched conspiracy theories and integrated some of them into his novel Of Aged Angels, which dealt with the Knights Templar, the secret bloodline of Jesus, aliens, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, the Holy Grail, and Jim Morrison (who is alive and well and living in France).
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 01. TEMPLARS AND MASONS: GRANDFATHERS OF CONSPIRACY
- 02. THE PUPPET MASTERS
- 03. KEEPING UP WITH THE CHRISTS
- 04. EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH NAZIS
- 05. 1947: THE CONSPIRACY YEAR
- 06. LEE, HARVEY, AND THE REST
- 07. OTHER MAGIC BULLETS
- 08. THE LADY IN THE POLKA DOT DRESS
- 09. DEATH OF A DREAM
- 10. ASSASSIN NATION
- 11. DEAD CELEBRITIES
- 12. DEAD? CELEBRITIES
- 13. TO THE MOON
- 14. THEY'RE HERE
- 15. IMPLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
- 16. THE SLOW INDOCTRINATION
- 17. ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
- 18. THE DEVIL MADE THEM DO IT
- 19. THE NEW WORLD ORDER
- 20. THE OTHER NEW WORLD ORDER
- 21. THE WAR ON DRUGS
- 22. THE TWO TOWERS
- 23. WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER
- 24. ULTRA SECRET
- 25. MEN IN BLACK
- 26. THE OCTOPUS
- 27. THE CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY
- APPENDIX BUILD YOUR OWN CONSPIRACY THEORY
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
