What I Saw At the Conspiracy Theory Conference
18th March 2015
Jesse Walker reports back.
“I think the reason we think conspiracy theories exist is because they exist,” he declared.
It was neither the first nor the last contentious moment of the conference, which took place on the university’s Coral Gables campus from March 12 to 14. The event had been organized by Joseph Uscinski and Joseph Parent, a pair of political scientists who did a commendable job of looking past their own field to invite people from different disciplines. And when I say “different disciplines,” I don’t merely mean “people who study different things.” I mean “people with entirely different tool kits for understanding the universe.”