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HuckleB

(35,773 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2013, 03:08 PM Oct 2013

If You Distrust Vaccines, You're More Likely to Think NASA Faked the Moon Landings And... [View all]

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/vaccine-denial-conspiracy-theories-gmos-climate

"Do you believe that a covert group called the New World Order is planning to take over the planet and impose a single world government?

Do you think the moon landings were staged in a Hollywood studio?

What about 9/11—do you suspect the US government deliberately allowed the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks to happen in order to concoct an excuse for war?

If you believe these sorts of things, you're a conspiracy theorist. That much goes without saying. But according to new research, if you believe these sorts of things, you are also more likely to be skeptical of what scientists have to say on three separate issues: vaccinations, genetically modified foods, and climate change.

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