the Suppressed Evidence of 9/11). Bröckers stated that the unanimous opinion expressed by the media that Bin Laden was responsible made him suspicious: "Although it was the biggest police investigation of all time... one year after the attacks the amount of evidence gathered against those who allegedly masterminded them, Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group Al Qaeda, comes to no more than it did only a few hours afterwards: virtually nothing." Bröckers does not accept that Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. Bröckers is a longstanding writer on conspiracy theories who was working on a book on conspiracy theories before the 9/11 attacks. As an admirer and translator of the work of novelist Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Bröckers was working a book on a "new science of conspirology" in Sept. 2001, which led to his work on 9/11. His proposed scheme of thought would include "a general theory of conspiracy theories" as a guide to assessing their validity, instead of "blindly demonizing" them. Reception and criticism In his dissertation on the history of conspiracy theories as a history of the media, media studies scholar John David Seidler devotes a separate section to Bröckers, in which he analyzes his statements on the media. According to this, he professes a conscious rejection of established media as the basis of journalistic research: he sees these as mere consensus machines and tending to corrupt. In contrast, Bröckers praises the Internet as an alternative to the "media conspiracy": "Googling Google twice a day and making up your own mind – that reliably helps against virulent manipulations, propaganda infections and impending chronic dumbing down!" By denigrating the mainstream media with medical metaphors, however, he exposed himself to suspicion of propaganda. Seidler explains the fierce attacks on his theses with the fact that Bröckers, unlike other conspiracy theorists, appears recognizably as a professional journalist and publishes in a thoroughly reputable environment. In 2017, Bröckers judged in the online magazine Rubikon that the behavior of the CIA and the media against President Trump were clear indications of a "deep state" "which is conducting a coup from within by undemocratic means...". He called on the "serious left" to overcome the "cognitive dissonance" that compels them, for example, using the assassination of Kennedy as an example, to question what he sees as the improbability of Oswald's perpetration or to