The Encyclopedia of Misinformation Quotes

“Caution: Accusing cosplayers of kinky motivations will often yield scorn. Avoid doing so, unless you are dressed as Link.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“Authoritarians succeed not so much by convincing people of their falsehoods as by creating confusion and disarray.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“The Barnum effect—the propensity to derive personal meaning from statements that could apply to many people—helps explain why certain individuals can become susceptible to hokum peddlers”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“Agnotology is the science of creating stupidity. First coined by a history professor,3 agnotology (from the Greek for “not knowing”) is the study of culturally constructed ignorance, usually manufactured by special interest groups to suppress facts and create confusion.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“Also, Botox is a $2.8 billion per year cosmetic industry, because millions of people inject it into their face to reduce wrinkles and appear younger.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“In his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler put forth the theory that “in the big lie there is a force of credibility.” He imagined “untruths so colossal” that the public “would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” In these passages, he was accusing Jews and Marxists of using the rhetorical Big Lie to start World War I. (Accusing others of using the Big Lie is a good way to deploy the Big Lie.) But really, he was writing a guidebook that he would later follow.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“Except John Barron was as real as George Washington’s cherry tree. Trump, who would later become the forty-fifth president of the United States, completely made him up.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“Agnotologists inundate the citizenry with enough disinformation to cast doubt on an entire issue.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery