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To preempt the conspiracy theorists showing up... > Firefighters were rushing to try to contain a fire that has broken out at the cathedral, which police said
by marricks 8y ago
To preempt the conspiracy theorists showing up...
> Firefighters were rushing to try to contain a fire that has broken out at the cathedral, which police said began accidentally and was linked to building work at the site.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/notre-dame-fire-paris-france-cathedral https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/notre-dame-fir...
- pacoWebConsult 8y agoA conspiracy theorist would expect the police to be covering up the fact that multiple churches in paris have been the targets of arsonists this year.
- maccio92 8y agoSure looks like an accident in light of all these other attacks.. https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-france-sees-altars-desecrated-christ-statue-1370800 https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-fra...
- hn_throwaway_99 8y agoWhich logical fallacy is this anyway? Why are people against just waiting more than 5 effing seconds before jumping to conclusions with no evidence these days?
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoWhy do you need facts when feelings are so much easier to obtain?
- maccio92 8y agoIf I told you three hospitals were targets of attacks, then a similar situation happened at a fourth hospital, would your first thought be that it was an accident?
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoWhat's the harm in waiting until we have more evidence before we start throwing out ideas? Why is it important to be the first to declare "I see the pattern!"?
- walterstucco 8y agoInsecurity
- pastor_elm 8y agothere were no workers on site (started at 6:30pm local). No way they know what the actual cause was.
- panarky 8y agoFacts aren't an antidote to conspiracy thinking. To the conspiracy minded, facts only prove how deep the conspiracy goes.
- marricks 8y agoI mean sure, but a common issue with conspiracies is they become so pervasive in social media, like top comments on hacker news, and then draw in the not-so-conspiracy-minded in. That’s what I’m trying to preempt.
- lucb1e 8y agoA lot of "conspiracy theorists" were proved right by the Snowden discoveries. Not all of them are lunatics, some extrapolate facts and expect something most people would not. One is not either sane or conspiracy minded, there are a lot of people that would be helped with facts.
- magduf 8y agoNo conspiracy theory needed. I'm not sure about contractors in Paris, but here in America a large percentage of them seem to be completely incompetent and do shoddy work, so it's no surprise to me that they'd cause a fire. Remember the old saying: never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.
- bonestamp2 8y agoEven if they were the best, most careful contractors, all of us make mistakes in our jobs. The main difference is that some of these guys are often working with things that are on fire or nearly on fire to begin with. It doesn't take much of an accident to start a structure fire in those scenarios.
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- ogeir 8y agoHow many of those doing the "building work" were Arabs? Asking for a friend.