Salt, Toothpaste, and the CIA From: Skeptic | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Polak, Allan D | Copyright Millennium Press, Inc. 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Indian Society

IT IS DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, TO grow up in the U.S. and not be familiar with at least one conspiracy theory. The JFK assassination, the coverup of the crashed UFO at Roswell, NM, and the plotting of the Freemasons are some of the most popular in a nation rife with belief in conspiracies. A 1997 Scripps-Howard News Service poll found that 51% of Americans believed that federal officials played a role in JFK's assassination, while o...

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