Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued
that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups.
Seine Aussage ist, dass Verschwörungstheoretiker ja nicht irrational oder geisteskrank seien (oh, danke, Herr Sunstein!), sondern schlicht nur eine sehr kleine Zahl an Quellen haben. Und die muß man dann eben infiltrieren.
By "crippled epistemology" Sunstein means that people who believe in conspiracy theories have a limited number of sources of information that they trust. Therefore, Sunstein argued in the article, it would not work to simply refute the conspiracy theories in public — the very sources that conspiracy theorists believe would have to be infiltrated.
http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-st...on-911-groups/
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