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Experienced academic readers usually read a text with questions in mind and try to relate it to other possible approaches, while inexperienced readers tend to adopt the question of a text and the frames of the argument and take it as a given. What good readers can do is spot the limitations of a particular approach and see what is not mentioned in the text.
Digital Zettelkasten
David Kadavy
Some of the unifying themes can include:
- an event/topic with far-reaching societal implications
- access to special or secret Truths that the public ("sheeple") are ignorant or in denial about
- delegitimization of experts as part of the conspiracy or corrupt & untrustworthy
Conspiracy Theorists Rar...
@past_is_future on Twitter
Lots of screen-time is [not strongly associated](http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-01-15-technology-use-explains-most-04-adolescent-wellbeing) with low wellbeing; it explains about as much of teen sadness as eating potatoes, 0.35%.
Reversals in Psychology
gleech.org
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