{"id":1596,"date":"2009-10-06T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T10:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2009-10-06T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T10:48:45","slug":"the-conspiracy-theory-and-why-it-wont-die-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"The conspiracy theory and why it won&#8217;t die (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poll conducted in 2006 suggested that 36% of Americans suspect government involvement or deliberate inaction in the 9\/11 attacks and 40% believe that the assassination of John Kennedy was the subject of a conspiracy. Here, in the UK, one survey found a fifth of Britons believe that Princess Diana was murdered.<br \/>\nBBC online reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8291688.stm\">a meeting<\/a> which attempted to combat the power of such conspiracy theories, although believers defy evidence to cling to their irrational theories.<br \/>\nI have myself written about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/weirdthings.html\">&#8220;Why People Believe Weird Things&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poll conducted in 2006 suggested that 36% of Americans suspect government involvement or deliberate inaction in the 9\/11 attacks and 40% believe that the assassination of John Kennedy was the subject of a conspiracy. Here, in the UK, one survey found a fifth of Britons believe that Princess Diana was murdered. BBC online reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}