Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories

Behind the ostensible government sits an enthroned invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people Who said that? Some truther writing about 9/11? No, it was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. This book is not about whether Obama is really a Muslim or if 9/11 was an......more

Great. Wish there had been more discussion of the most effective ways to talk about this stuff with believers, but the central message is very important and good. I recommend.......more

Suspicious Minds is not a book about conspiracy theories in the sense of recounting different conspiracy theories for the sake of convincing you of them, or indeed of debunking them. Instead it examines what makes people so susceptible to believing in conspiracies, with a good deal of sympathy — it......more

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Suspicious Minds by Rob Brotherton is an interest, slightly irreverent, study of what makes us believe what we all too often believe. From the harmless suspicious tendency to roll a pair of die gently in order......more

This was my first audio book and content wise it felt just like listening to a podcast which I really enjoyed. I found it a bit repetitive at times but still interesting as I had no prior knowledge of most of the mentioned conspiracy theories as well as the psychological biases that make us more sus......more