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I don't understand the the trend these days to disprove conspiracy theories as a category. Obviously some conspiracy theories are true and most of them are fals
by randomgyatwork 11y ago
I don't understand the the trend these days to disprove conspiracy theories as a category. Obviously some conspiracy theories are true and most of them are false.
That said conspiracy theories are based around areas where a complete knowledge is not available. The description of the problem maybe correct, but the motivations of the parties involved wrong. To discredit an idea simply because it is a conspiracy theory is illogical.
- beat 11y agoConspiracies are often true. Conspiracy theories are generally false. Many popular conspiracy theories involve huge numbers of conspirators - thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. For anyone who has a "feel" for how math works, it seems wrong. Putting some hard statistics work around it makes the false nature of large-scale conspiracies more concrete for those of us who believe in math. A conspiracy theory where no more than a dozen people need to be involved makes sense to me. A conspiracy theory involving every climate scientist in the world, or every doctor in the world, or every NASA employee, seems like BS.
- randomgyatwork 11y agoThat sounds reasonable. There could be informal conspiracy, take the 2008 financial crisis. Everyone was working in their own self-interest, and there were thousands of them doing it. From the outside it could look like they were working together to some nefarious ends.