"We should strive to be aware of what we are doing when labelling others as paranoid or reporting that they believe in “conspiracy theories” given that one of the effects of such a move is to undermine the legitimacy of others’ views and to implicitly position our own views as legitimate."
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David Harper, The Politics of Paranoia: Paranoid Positioning and Conspiratorial Narratives in the Surveillance Society, University of East London (January 2008)
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