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* People who subscribe to [[Conspiracy Theories]] are often able to jump from one belief to another, without ever admitting they're contradictory or that the original was wrong. There's an organization called "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth", which claims a membership of 1,500 professionals in those professions. When debunkers point out that more than their entire membership enters the labour force in those professions each ''year'', and that there are over a ''million'' people in those professions in the US, the Truthers often promptly start whining about the Appeal To Authority fallacy.
** Not just [[Conspiracy Theories]]; people seem to have a knack for this when it comes to politics, atheism, religion, philosophy, or just about anything you can hold an opinion on, really.
* A cornerstone tenet of the Church of the SubGenius is to "pull the wool over your own eyes"—if you're going to believe in bullshit, it better be ''your own'' bullshit. One mark of a SubGenius sermon is that it [[
** The funny thing about both of those is that they work way better as parodies of Paganism. Or their own members.
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