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Published Erratum
. 2016 Mar 1;11(3):e0151003.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151003. eCollection 2016.

Correction: On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs

David Robert Grimes
Published Erratum

Correction: On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs

David Robert Grimes. PLoS One. .
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Fig 1
Fig 1. Projected failure probability L for a conspiracy of 5000 initial conspirators and p = 5×10−6 with different population assumptions.
The blue sold line depicts L over time with a constant level of conspirators being maintained. The red dotted line shows a single event with Gompertzian decay of the conspiring population, assuming an average initial age of 40 years old and the dashed orange line shows an exponential decay with number of conspirators being halved every 10 years.
Fig 4
Fig 4. Failure curves for a conspiracy of No = 5000 over a 50 year period with exponential removal of conspirators with half-life t2 of 5 years (λ=ln2t2=0.139yr−1) with assumption of constant p and proportional change in p of p(t) = poeλt.
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References

    1. Grimes DR (2016) On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0147905 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147905 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
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