Conspiracy Theories, af Robin Ramsay, 2006, 159 sider.
Mange konspirationsteorier affærdiges som vanvittige. Mange af teorierne synes ligefrem at blive erobret af vanvittige mennesker. Det kan let overskygge substansen i eventuelt reelle konspirationer.
For mange i establishment betyder "konspirationsteori" ikke en teori om en konspiration, men noget meget bredere og værre. Her kan fremdrages X, der har eksisteret i århundreder og hvor X kan betyde de jødiske bankmænd, frimurerlogerne, katolikkerne, kommunisterne, illuminati eller djævelen selv. X kan også være den engelske kongefamilie og overjordiske væsener, Planet X.
Konspirationsteoretikernes yndlingsemne er Bilderberg-gruppen. Herom skriver nævnte bog blandt andet.
In the early post-war years groups of elite managers were formed. One was the Bilderberg group, begun in 1954 by the Polish eminence grise Joseph Retinger, working for the British MI6, and funded by the CIA. For almost 30 years Bilderberg was simply nok reported on by the major Anglo-American media. The major media on both sides of the Atlantic have continued by and large to accept the Bilderberg's request for secrecy, the group has been reported on in the USA in a magazine called The Spotlight for over a decade. One of Bilderberg's guests, Tony Blair, in an answer denied that he had attended the meeting. Asked by the Conservative MP Christopher Gill which members of his government had attended meetings of the Bilderberg Group, Blair - or his office - replied in a written answer on 16 march 1998, "None". In fact, as well as Blair, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and George Robertson from New Labour had attended Bilderberg meeting. In Italy in the 1980s, the Masonic lodge P2 was "a secret team" or a secret society. As for "a tiny club of secret elites" there are elite groups, som of which are secret - or would like to be secret (Bilderberg, Bohemian, Le Cercle for example) but, to my knowledge, no-one has ever described them as being a "Club", big or small. Some on the political right have joined the left in identifying the state as the conspirator-in-chief.
