(256)The Shakespeare Authorship question: The "Pluralistic Ignorance"

The term "Conspiracy Theorists" as a manipulative instrument

within the Shakespeare authorship debate...

little believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes.

Excerpt  from Werner von Koppenfels
 "slating review" of the

Marlowe Theory
 in the german newspaper "Frankfurter
Allgemeinen Zeitung"(FAZ)

Rico Albrecht  in a speech entitled "Freedom by means of Knowledge (German)" in Nov.29 2014  at-"Wissensmanufaktur"  dealt with  the term of  "conspiracy theorists", which he recognizes as a monstrous word of manipulating our knowledge.

You may transfer one to one the manner in which the public media are dealing with the concept of "Conspiracy theory/theorists" and how the term is used as a manipulative instrument  within the Shakespeare authorship debate.

The academic and press media representants of the  mainstream  "Shakespeare / Stratford Orthodoxy" for lack of evidence long ago reached the stage where to deposit  the  scientists of so called "Anti-Stratfordians" at the landfill site of conspiray theorists  (engaging seriously in the search of a Shakespeare authorship solution) (s. Blogs. Nr. -->246, -->247,--> 248, --> 249, --> 250....)
    
It reminds of the so called  "pluralistic ignorance",  a situation in which people privately reject a norm, but incorrectly assume that most others accept it, and therefore go along with it. This pluralistic ignorance is described as :

"little believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes."

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