1. Key Stage 4 Conspiracy Theories

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8. How are you being influenced? Just a few of the techniques… Bandwagon Assertion Lesser of two evils Scapegoating Down with the kids Transfer Diversion Misrepresentation of the facts Playing to your emotions How are you being influenced?

9. 1.Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? 2.What conspiracy theories do you know? Pair work;

10. 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?

11. 1.The JFK Assassination 2.9/11 Cover-Up 3.Roswell, Area 51 and the Aliens 4.Secret Societies Control the World 5.Osama Bin Laden is still alive 6.The Moon Landings Were Faked 7.Jesus and Mary Magdalene 8.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 Well known conspiracy theories