More Geocentrism - and Conspiracy Theories...

It's been a while since I dealt with claims of geocentrists and there are a few outstanding issues which I hope to address in the future.  However, others have continued to be active in the topic.  David Palm has collected some of the material at Geocentrism Debunked (www.geocentrismdebunked.org).

David approaches the issue predominantly from the perspective of geocentrism being bad theology.    He also presents some profiles of the 'leading' geocentrists, profiling the personalities involved, which, of no surprise, intersects with various other conspiracy theories.  

Some of these conspiratorial beliefs I suspected from my earlier encounters with the geocentrists, since they would often evade direct questions about the impact of their beliefs on space flight.

There have been some interesting studies on the conspiratorial mindset of late.  You can find out more at:

• Conspiracy Theory Poll Results
• Belief in Conspiracies Linked to Machiavellian Mindset
• RationalWiki: Crank Magnetism.  How one crank idea seems to attract more crank ideas.
• Neurologica Blog: Conspiracy Thinking