Skeptic Project

Edward, you have the beginnings of a section on secret societies.

I would appreciate it very much if you could flesh this out. It may well turn out to be the most important part of your site.

Allegations about secret societies are at the heart of what I call grand conspiracy ideology -- the belief that many or even most world events have been orchestrated by a secret cabal, such as the "Illuminati" or the "Elders of Zion," which has supposedly been doing its thing for centuries or even millenia without being detected by historians. And grand conspiracy ideology is, in my opinion, the most dangerous kind of "conspiracy theory."