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Stupid conspiracy theories? Are they stupid if they're right?

• virmundi 9y ago
  The comment was tongue in cheek. Of course they do this.
• shallot_router 9y ago
  They're stupid if they're just saying something everyone already knows. It'd be like saying "the US government assassinates civilians with unmanned airborne vehicles" or something.
  • akvadrako 9y ago
    It's borderline. Even if all the people in the know know it, it wasn't accepted as fact when it was't convenient. Or rather, politicians could pretend it wasn't real / a problem.
• skygazer 9y ago
  Well, perhaps stupid in that calling them conspiracy theories is a mark of ignornace, when they'd be better termed as uncontested and easily supported public facts, or something.
  • mcbits 9y ago
    So to be clear, when someone calls an easily supported public fact a "conspiracy theory" to dismiss it, "stupid" should be applied to them, not to the so-called conspiracy theory.