And now, all of a sudden, he’s been mainstreamed,” said Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at the University of California, Davis who studies conspiracy theories. And Trump, of course, cannot be blamed for the existence of conspiracy theories around Clinton. Research by University of Miami professor Joe Uscinski and others suggests conservatives are no more likely to buy into conspiracy theories than liberals. On the other side of her mouth, she was spewing her own conspiracy theories,” Uscinski said. It’s that these sites and these purveyors of conspiracy theories that have always existed are now advising presidential candidates,” said Olmsted.

Source: thestar September 14, 2016 19:07 UTC