O.K. boys and girls, when you read this …………….., remember it’s what AMERICANS believe, not Canadians.
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By Philip Bump | The Atlantic Wire
About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there’s a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want.
Today PPP released the results of a national survey looking at common
conspiracy theories. Broken down by topic and cross-referenced by political
preference, the results will not inspire a lot of patriotism. If you need to
defend your fellow countrymen, be sure to note that the margin of error is 2.8
percent.
We took the findings and arranged them from most- to least-believed. And,
just to inspire additional shame, figured out how many actual Americans that
meant must believe in things like the danger of fluoride in water. (28 million,
if you’re wondering.)
Just to further inspire conversation, PPP broke down belief in each theory by
whom the respondent supported in the 2012 election.
This yielded some genuinely interesting results.
For example, only two conspiracies were more commonly believed by Obama supporters: that Bush intentionally misled America about Iraq’s WMDs (a massive 69 percent of his supporters believe that one) and that the moon landing was faked. There two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: that aliens exist and theone about fluoridation. Everything else, from lizard people to vaccines and autism to global warming being a hoax? Believed by more Romney supporters.
No conspiracy was less commonly believed than one suggesting that the government is populated by lizard people. But that’s mostly because only 2 percent of Obama supporters believe the theory while 5 percent of Romney supporters do.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/12-million-americans-believe-lizard-people-run-country-184751427.html
First of all ……….., like it or not America, Canadians are not nearly as
gullible as those people south of the border!
Second, the whole survey’s impartiality is brought into question when they claim that Bush misleading the public about WMD’s is a conspiracy, while we know darn well here in Canada that he actually did that!
Just the same, all things considered, we’re a little more worldly than the Uh-mericans!
By Philip Bump | The Atlantic Wire
About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there’s a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want.
Public Policy Polling has raised weird polls to an art form.
During last year’s presidential campaign, the firm earned a bit of a reputation for its unorthodox
questions; for example, “If God exists, do you approve of its handling of
natural disasters?”
Today PPP released the results of a national survey looking at common
conspiracy theories. Broken down by topic and cross-referenced by political
preference, the results will not inspire a lot of patriotism. If you need to
defend your fellow countrymen, be sure to note that the margin of error is 2.8
percent.
View the full question asked for each
conspiracy.
| Conspiracy | Percent believing | Number of Americans believing |
| JFK was killed by conspiracy | 51 percent | 160,096,160 |
| Bush intentionally misled on Iraq WMDs | 44 percent | 138,122,178 |
| Global warming is a hoax | 37 percent | 116,148,195 |
| Aliens exist | 29 percent | 91,035,072 |
| New World Order | 28 percent | 87,895,931 |
| Hussein was involved in 9/11 | 28 percent | 87,895,931 |
| A UFO crashed at Roswell | 21 percent | 65,921,948 |
| Vaccines are linked to autism | 20 percent | 62,782,808 |
| The government controls minds with TV | 15 percent | 47,087,106 |
| Medical industry invents diseases | 15 percent | 47,087,106 |
| CIA developed crack | 14 percent | 43,947,966 |
| Bigfoot exists | 14 percent | 43,947,966 |
| Obama is the Antichrist | 13 percent | 40,808,825 |
| The government allowed 9/11 | 11 percent | 34,530,544 |
| Fluoride is dangerous | 9 percent | 28,252,264 |
| The moon landing was faked | 7 percent | 21,973,983 |
| Bin Laden is alive | 6 percent | 18,834,842 |
| Airplane contrails are sinister chemicals | 5 percent | 15,695,702 |
| McCartney died in 1966 | 5 percent | 15,695,702 |
| Lizard people control politics | 4 percent | 12,556,562 |
This yielded some genuinely interesting results.
For example, only two conspiracies were more commonly believed by Obama supporters: that Bush intentionally misled America about Iraq’s WMDs (a massive 69 percent of his supporters believe that one) and that the moon landing was faked. There two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: that aliens exist and theone about fluoridation. Everything else, from lizard people to vaccines and autism to global warming being a hoax? Believed by more Romney supporters.
No conspiracy was less commonly believed than one suggesting that the government is populated by lizard people. But that’s mostly because only 2 percent of Obama supporters believe the theory while 5 percent of Romney supporters do.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/12-million-americans-believe-lizard-people-run-country-184751427.html
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First of all ……….., like it or not America, Canadians are not nearly as
gullible as those people south of the border!Second, the whole survey’s impartiality is brought into question when they claim that Bush misleading the public about WMD’s is a conspiracy, while we know darn well here in Canada that he actually did that!
Just the same, all things considered, we’re a little more worldly than the Uh-mericans!
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