Conspiracy theories

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event
This is one of many events surrounded by conspiracy theories.
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wydarzenie
lone gunman
Around what proportion of the US population believes that the assassination of President John F Kennedy was not the result of a lone gunman?
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samotny rewolwerowiec
lone
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samotny
gullible
a gullible person is easily persuaded to believe something
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naiwny
susceptible
susceptible likely to be influenced by
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podatny
suspicious
Did they find anything odd or suspicious?
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podejrzany, podejrzliwy
cover-up
cover-up attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about something important
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próba ukrywania faktów
trait
trait quality
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cecha
off the beaten track
off the beaten track unusual; not done by many other people
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na / poza utartym szlakiem
unsubstantiated
unsubstantiated not supported by evidence
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bezpodstawne
substantiated
Some of them seem substantiated by evidence, while others were not.
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uzasadnione/ poparte dowodami
footage
Apparently, in the 1960s television footage of the moon landing, the American flag is fluttering – and there's no air on the moon so the US government must've faked it!
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materiał filmowy (o określonym wydarzeniu)
fluttering
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trzepotliwy
gullible
I didn't realize you were so gullible Rob – and that means easily persuaded to believe something.
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naiwny
dimensions
There are quite a few personality dimensions that seem to be related to belief in conspiracy theories and not surprisingly paranoia is one of them
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wymiary
entertain
people who are willing to entertain ideas that are kind of off the beaten track.
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zabawiać
off the beaten track
people who are willing to entertain ideas that are kind of off the beaten track.
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poza utartym szlakiem
trait
So he says that paranoia is a personality trait – or quality – that leads some people to believe in conspiracy theories.
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cecha
unsubstantiated
But more serious examples are parents choosing not to vaccinate their children against diseases because of unsubstantiated ideas that they are harmful – 'unsubstantiated' means 'not supported by evidence'.
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bezpodstawne
have a point
But they might have a point
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