Important terms
When you hear a sound and immediately suspect it's a tiger, but it turns out that there was nothing there...
False positive
When you hear a sound and suspect nothing, but it turns out to be a tiger that eats you.
False negative
The "father" of the flat earth theory
Mark Sargent
This theory believes that many humans are actually not humans but a certain animal
Lizard theory, reptillian theory..
True or false: Slaves built The White House
True!
A type of therapy that "helps" you uncover memories, which has been banned in most practices today.
The term describing the act of trying to disprove a conspiracy theory
Debunking
A big ex military guy who heavily pushed the conspiracy theory regarding the 7/7 attacks in London
David Shayler
This theory argues that the Earth is not actually flat, but something else...
Hollow earth theory!
What country built the Statue of Liberty?
France
A psychological term defining how you can remember stuff that did not happen
False memory syndrome
The term many conspiracy theorists are labeled as
Truthers
The first name of the woman whose supposed autobiographical book heavily inspired the satanist conspiracy theory.
Michelle
This theory believes that Donald Trump is God's savior sent to drive out evil, satanic Democrats as well as evil, blood sucking Hollywood actors.
Qanon
True or false: Donald Trump was a registered democrat from 2000-2010.
True!
The name of the effect and graph explaining how the more ignorant about a topic you are, the more confident you are in your knowledge about that topic.
The Dunning-Kruger effect/graph.
The syndrome describing the fact that the more you know about a topic, the less confident you feel about explaining that topic.
Imposter syndrome
The brilliant woman who uttered the phrase: "I'm not going to believe a terrorist attack like the Boston Bomber happened unless I physically lost a leg there myself"
PatriCIA Steere
The famous phrase claiming that a certain American president was responsible for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Bush did 9/11 ! !1
True or false: California is the world's 3rd biggest economy
False (They're 5th behind the US, China, Japan, and Germany)
The fact that if something BIG happens, we expect something BIG to be behind it is called...
Proportionality bias
The fact that humans tend to believe that there is a purpose behind almost every action/event is called...
Intentionality bias
The name of the psychologist who became an expert on satanism after publishing a book about it with his patient/lover.
Lawrence Pazder
This theory argued that a certain animal that we all see everyday (probably without noticing) are actually not real, but a kind of robot meant to spy on people.
Birds aren't real conspiracy!
True or false: From 2015-2020, children and toddlers accidently shot and killed 1500 people in the US.
False: It was only 675 deaths...