Best inoculation against conspiracist thinking I've seen -- for the dose is easy to take -- is the Illuminatus! trilogy. Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
Next best is probably Lerner's Why People Believe Weird Things. Nonfiction, with a chapter for each of the major mass delusions of our time. The chapter on Holocaust denial is especially... um, illuminating.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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