Ozeb, I find it just as interesting that people take exceedingly small sample studies and make them out to be definitive on an issue. Take the study you cite for example.
"102 undergraduate students (58% female, mean age 21) at a British university were recruited to participate in the study between one and six weeks after the announcement of bin Laden’s death. In exchange for their participation they received a randomized prize of either a snack or a small monetary reward of GB£1.00 or 2.00 (~US$1.50 or 3.00)"
Read page 12-14 of their study. It is a great example of "researchers" setting out to "prove" what they had originally theorised. http://kent.academia.edu/RobbieSutton/Papers/1275313/Dead_and_alive_Beliefs_in_contradictory_conspiracy_theories
The study then gets widely quoted and circulated, despite questionable results.
