Ted Goertzel
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Goertzel (left) with Dave Thomas, Bob Blaskiewicz and Scott Lilienfeld at the CSICon 2011 conspiracy theories panel.
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| Native name | Ted George Goertzel |
| Born | November 20, 1942 |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Education | Antioch College (B.A., 1964), Washington University (M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1970) |
| Thesis | Brazilian student attitudes towards politics and education (1970) |
| Known for | Research on conspiracy theories |
| Children | Ben Goertzel |
Ted George Goertzel (born November 20, 1942) is an American sociologist and emeritus professor of sociology at Rutgers University. He is known for studying conspiracy theories in science. In 1994, for example, he conducted a survey of 347 people in New Jersey, on the basis of which he argued that each belief a person has about a conspiracy theory serve as a basis for their beliefs about other such theories. He is the father of Ben Goertzel, with whom he co-authored the 1995 book Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics, and of Rebecca Goertzel.
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