Transcript Key Stage 4 - London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

Key Stage 4
Conspiracy Theories
In 2005 a series of strange
rumours spread through East
London…
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Do you believe in the
Vampire Conspiracy?
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How are you being influenced?
How are you being influenced? Just a few of the techniques…
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Bandwagon
Assertion
Lesser of two evils
Scapegoating
Down with the kids
Transfer
Diversion
Misrepresentation of the facts
Playing to your emotions
Pair work;
1. Why do people believe in
conspiracy theories?
2. What conspiracy theories do you
know?
Why do people believe
in conspiracy theories
63% of registered American voters believe in at least one political conspiracy
theory.
Conspiracy theories appear to be a way of reacting to uncertainty
and powerlessness.
A rational leap to understand what just happened,
Does the Internet and other media sources make us paranoid?
Are they forms of cynicism, a turning away from politics and traditional media?
Well known conspiracy
theories
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The JFK Assassination
9/11 Cover-Up
Roswell, Area 51 and the Aliens
Secret Societies Control the World
Osama Bin Laden is still alive
The Moon Landings Were Faked
Jesus and Mary Magdalene
Holocaust Revisionism
9. The Reptilian Elite
10. The Illuminati and the New World Order
11. Elvis Presley faked his own death
12. Shakespeare was not Shakespeare
13. Paul McCartney is dead
14. Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent
15. The Aids virus was created in a CIA
laboratory