TAU_equals_2PI t1_iugia7s wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:31 AM

>Nearly one in five people in the UK think terror survivors are not telling the truth about what happened to them, new research for the BBC suggests. A third say the pandemic has made them more suspicious of official explanations of UK terror attacks.

WTF, UK?

rising_then_falling t1_iuhlha7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:08 PM

As ever, you have to find the source. The original question in the poll was "In your opinion are the following statements true or false?"

Then various statements rating to terror, cover ups etc. Including "Victims of terror attacks in the UK are not being truthful about what happened to them"

6% said definitely true, another 13% said probably true.

For every statement, about 5% were solid reality deniers.

However, this group. Is significantly skewed towards :

Non voters, people who get their news primarily from social media, and those under 34.

It is slightly skewed towards men and towards Labour voters, who in all cases are more likely to believe the conspiracy theories than Conservative voters.

Original results

https://kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/truth-under-attack.pdf

Double_Jab_Jabroni t1_iui9png wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:18 PM

Labour voters are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than conservative voters? Where do you get that from?

rising_then_falling t1_iuij4nc wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:22 PM

Slide nine of the linked PDF.

One of the suggestions is that belief in conspiracy theories is strongly linked to mistrust of the government. It perhaps makes sense that those who are politically opposed to the current government are more likely to mistrust its 'official version' narrative.

Would be interesting to see if this changes after a change of government next election.

It could also be that those inherently mistrustful of government and officialdom are more likely to be conspiracy theorists.

Certainly, all the slightly loopy types I've met with an interest in contrails/conspiracies/vaccine hoax etc have been the hippy/lefty/druggy types, not the UKIP/little Britain/curtain twitcher type.

Nopes_alot_ t1_iuhvzhq wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:40 PM

One and five people in the UK lie about everything and think everyone else does too.