The results seemed to substantiate Lanoir's paranoid theory, which was why Portbane set up the test in the first place.

The fact that there are now paramilitary groups around the country reflects intense alienation, linked to paranoid theories of history - and intensified by millennialism.

People who are attracted to paranoid theories (birthers, for example) often have poor social skills.

What I don't like is encouraging your paranoid theory, much less getting between you and the administration, particularly Dubchek.

"Everybody has their own little paranoid theories," Mrs. Howell said.

They spend their afternoons spinning out increasingly more paranoid racial theories to explain their own economic imprisonment.

It's a nice paranoid theory, but I don't think so.

"Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability takes a certain amount of ideological self-confidence," he later wrote.

Now there was a nice, paranoid theory.

"According to your own paranoid theory, if Bark is setting us up, if we get the Sheikh, all is well."