The “Name that Shall Not be Named”

Conspiracy theories always seem to find their way back to one “organization,” the Illuminati. The Merriam-Webster definitions of illuminati are: “any of various groups claiming special religious enlightenment”, “persons who are or who claim to be unusually enlightened”, and “elite”. However, Dictionary.com gives some more interesting definitions: “persons possessing, or claiming to possess, superior enlightenment” and […]

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Conspiracy Theories

What is a conspiracy theory and why do such theories exist? According to Wikipedia (yes, not the most reliable source but bare with me), a conspiracy theory is “an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an […]

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