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Cognitive Infiltration An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

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ISBN-10: 1566568218

ISBN-13: 9781566568210

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Ray Griffin

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Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who in 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct and important executive branch office, had in 2008 co-authored an article containing a plan for the government to prevent the spread of anti-government "conspiracy theories," in which he advocated the use of anonymous government agents to engage in "cognitive infiltration" of these groups in order to break them up. In his new book, Griffin focuses on the fact that Sunstien's primary target is the conspiracy theory advocated by the 9/11 Truth Movement. Examining Sunstein's charge that this theory is both "harmful" and "demonstrably false," Griffin uses both satire and…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Introduction: Cass Sunstein's "Conspiracy Theories"
Conspiracy Theories Defined
Conspiracy Theories in America as Usually False
The 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Defined
9/11 Conspiracy Theorists as Epistemological Cripples
The 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as Demonstrably False
The 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as Harmful
The Duty to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
Inoculating the Public
Hard-Core Conspiracy Theorists as Unteachable
Cognitive Infiltration as the Best Solution
Conclusion: Interpreting the Esoteric Interpretation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index