Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

Clare Birchall at the University of Kent describes conspiracy theory as a form of popular knowledge.

In a context where a conspiracy theory has become popular within a social group, communal reinforcement may equally play a part.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

Justinian's rule was not universally popular ; early in his reign he almost lost his throne during the Nika riots, and a conspiracy against the Emperor's life by dissatisfied businessmen was discovered as late as 562.

Men in Black ( MIB ), in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

The X-Files tapped into popular conspiracy fears and generational angst to find great commercial success throughout the decade.

The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision ; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.

Therefore there is a popular conspiracy theory that he was assassinated by either the Soviet KGB or the American CIA.

The Church of the SubGenius is a " parody religion " organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture.

A popular but unproven theory is that the murder was an act of conspiracy made by his sister Ulrika Eleonora's husband, Fredrik, who was crowned Fredrik I. It is believed that the murder was committed by an officer Fredrik ’ s aide-de-camp, André Sicre, who confessed before he died in a fever. to the murder during a state of delirium brought about by a fever and later recanted the statement.

A popular thread of conspiracy theory originating with Holy Blood, Holy Grail has it that the Templars used a fleet of 18 ships which had brought Jacques de Molay from Cyprus to La Rochelle to escape arrest in France.

In the middle of the conspiracy was Verina, who fomented a popular revolt against the Emperor.

However in 1980, Kim was arrested and sentenced to death on charges of sedition and conspiracy in the wake of another coup by Chun Doo-hwan and a popular uprising in Gwangju, his political stronghold.

The abrupt and unexpected nature of his death led to some speculation that foul play might have been involved, the most popular conspiracy theory involving a supposed KGB plot to ensure that Wilson ( alleged by the supporters of these theories to be a KGB agent himself ) became prime minister.

Operations restarted only very slowly, in an atmosphere poisoned by plotting and political conspiracy, undertaken in the name of popular justice.

Many of these have originated in recent times, and several popular New Age and conspiracy theory books have popularized the legend of the Spear.

A number of bestselling modern novels, the most popular of which was The Da Vinci Code, have incorporated elements of Bible conspiracy theories to flesh out their storylines, rather than to push these theories as actual suggestions.

The execution of the popular Hastings was controversial among contemporaries and has been interpreted differently by historians and other authors: while the traditional account, harking back to authors of the Tudor period including William Shakespeare, considered the conspiracy charge invented and merely a ploy to remove Hastings, who was too formidable an obstacle to Richard's royal ambitions, others have been more open to the possibility of such a conspiracy and that Richard merely reacted to secure his position.

Šešelj promoted popular notions of an " international conspiracy against the Serbs ," the foremost of which involved Germany, the Vatican, the CIA, Italy, Turkey, as well as the centrist Serbian political parties.

• In popular culture, there is a British punk rock band that takes its name from the Cato Street conspiracy.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Using the once popular vortex theory of gravity, the possibility of matter with negative gravity was discussed by William Hicks in the 1880s.

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are " sermons " on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.

Most quantitative calculations in modern quantum chemistry use either valence bond or molecular orbital theory as a starting point, although a third approach, Density Functional Theory, has become increasingly popular in recent years.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

This theory became popular during the Zhou dynasty.

Convergence theory is a broad term which includes a viewpoint popular among non-Marxist Chinese intellectuals of the mid 20th century.

With the expansion of the mass media and mass / popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s and the blending of social and cultural criticism and literary criticism, the methods of both kinds of critical theory sometimes intertwined in the analysis of phenomena of popular culture, as in the emerging field of cultural studies, in which concepts deriving from Marxian theory, post-structuralism, semiology, psychoanalysis and feminist theory would be found in the same interpretive work.

This theory, which was repeated by later antiquaries, is bolstered, or may have derived from, Cadbury's proximity to the River Cam and towns Queen Camel and West Camel, and remained popular enough to help inspire a large-scale archaeological dig in the 20th century.

A popular though as yet unsubstantiated theory holds that a small party of Cathar Perfects escaped from the fortress before the massacre at prat dels cremats.

Haug's concept was subsequently disseminated as a Parsi interpretation, thus corroborating Haug's theory and the idea became so popular that it is now almost universally accepted as doctrine.

The decoherence approaches to interpreting quantum theory have been further explored and developed, becoming quite popular.

Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.

It supplanted an earlier popular theory involving Francis Bacon.

The dissection and tracking of common formulaic tropes-as well as their subversions and new permutations-has become reasonably popular in not only academic circles ( the Final Girl theory being one such example, as well as to some extent Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces ), but also amongst more casual amateur circles, with websites such as TV Tropes Wiki.

In 1904, he wrote and published the first sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, explaining that he grudgingly wrote the sequel to address the popular demand.

A region known as the Iowa Great Lakes is in Dickinson County, making it a popular vacation destination for Iowans, and explaining the recent high population growth in the area.

Most notably, Reuben dismissed popular medical-psychiatric notions of " vaginal " vs. " clitoral " orgasm, explaining exactly how female physiology works.

One textbook, in explaining why edge cities are so popular, stated:

He also thought that too much of the libretto was spent explaining the Dogpatch milieu, which Donnelly assumed would be familiar to most audience members since Li ' l Abner was at that time a very popular comic strip.

The most popular story explaining the murder comes from Diodorus Siculus, who expanded upon its mention by Aristotle.

Currently, the theory of dark matter is the most popular candidate for explaining the galaxy rotation problem.

These segments included Dateline: Survivor, where a person talks about their near death experience and rescue ; Dateline Timeline, where a popular product, person, and music single are played and viewers are invited to guess what year it appeared in ; State of the Art, explaining how something was technically accomplished in a movie ; Consumer Alert, where common consumer complaints or issues, such as food safety, are investigated, Dateline Hidden Camera Investigation, a story using hidden cameras to focus on an issue of public concern, and Newsmakers, light interviews of major figures in politics, entertainment, and business, as well as regular people in the news.

* Shopping, with Jimmy explaining that, contrary to popular belief, most road accidents occur on short trips and often on roads with which the driver is familiar, such as women going shopping for groceries or collecting children from school.

However, his detailed commentaries explaining portions of the Bible in Spanish were highly popular among his peers.

Unable to go on, Bart finally confesses his crime to his family, explaining that he thought that being popular was the most important thing in the world that Homer told him.

His article on " CD-ROM " in IEEE Proceedings journal in the 80s was one of the first articles explaining how CD-ROM worked when CD-ROMs became popular.

In explaining his vote for the legislation, Melançon said, “ The people of south Louisiana sent me to Congress because I promised to listen to them and do what I thought was right, not what was most popular or what my party told me to do.

Invasionism was a popular approach to explaining social change amongst archaeologists until the 1960s when approaches that treated prehistory as being less bellicose were increasingly adopted, such as migrationism.

Paolo and Maria ( the same names as those of the author and his wife ) are going to marry after the mandatory period of five years of experimentation " with love but not children " ( Mantegazza was a sexual libertarian and wrote a very popular book explaining sexuality for young people, titled The Physiology of Love ).

A popular urban legend, fuelled by April Fools ' Day articles published by the Johannesburg newspaper The Star, tells that the Parktown prawn was actually the result of an escaped genetic experiment by students from the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1960s ( thus explaining the insects ' sudden arrival in Johannesburg at that time ).

Every afternoon for a period early in 1845, Prince Albert read it aloud to Queen Victoria as a suitable popular science book explaining the latest ideas from the continent.

This one-hour program featured full original cast recordings of popular Broadway musicals, with host Don Parish explaining the story between songs.

When General Knowledge speaks in the pre-show and is explaining that they are different kinds of brains, he shows a picture of Albert Einstein, as the example of a person who uses his brain and Ernest P. Worrell ( a popular fictional character played by Jim Varney, who was appearing in series of feature films produced by Disney at the time ), as an example of the opposite.

His lucid style of explaining hard science has frequently been imitated by later popular science presenters in Germany.

Besides writing and producing, Uspensky has enjoyed a professional role as a long-lasting figure in radio and television: he was instrumental in the creation of the popular radio programme Radio Nanny ( Радионяня ; Radionyanya ), produced with the aim of featuring songs and humorous dialogue as integral elements of an educational radio programme explaining concepts in grammar, mathematics, scientific subjects, and courteous behaviour to children.

According to Landa, their European travels are some of their most successful and popular performances, explaining why they travel to Europe so frequently for long musical tours.