Conspiracy Theories and Modals

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Exemples de théories du complot
2. Structure d’une théorie du complot
3. Mécanismes cérébraux impliqués
4. Pourquoi y croire
5. Exprimer la certitude et la possibilité
6. Vocabulaire essentiel

📖 1. Exemples de théories du complot

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Roswell : a town in the United States near Area 51 and a military base where a spacecraft is supposed to have crashed with aliens inside
• Big Foot : said to be a prehistoric giant man covered in hair who lives in American forests and mountains, although the story was a joke by students
• Shape-shifting lizards : extraterrestrial lizards that are said to have taken human form to invade Earth

📝 Points essentiels

• Examples of alleged secret societies or groups include:
  • the Illuminati
  • the Freemasons
  • the Jews
  • the Bilderberg Group
  • the Skull and Bones society
  • Big Pharma
  • the military-industrial complex
  • global elites

📖 2. Structure d’une théorie du complot

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Conspiracy theory : claims that phenomena are caused by an evil plan that cannot otherwise be explained

📝 Points essentiels