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I do not believe in all conspiracy theories and I do not ignore all conspiracy theories. When you understand that there are certain unprovable things and layer

• thephyber 6y ago
  I think the attack on “news” gatekeepers is a red herring. The National Enquirer has long been one of these, but they have never had any legitimate journalism credentials. I think it’s more important to distinguish that there are good faith investigations into conspiracies and there are bad faith investigations (more commonly called conspiracy theories, but this terminology is overloaded to muddy the difference). Good faith investigations acknowledge there are limits to what government/power/authority is reasonably able to do. Conspiracy theorists tend to attribute an impossibly high level of coordination, organization, ability to execute with no leaks, believe contradictory theories, accept complex assertions while rejecting simpler ones, etc. Additionally, people who believe in one conspiracy theory are likely to believe in many. I would argue that there’s a pathology in attributing the worst intentions to everyone in power and an inability for believers to impartially weigh evidence against their beliefs, so they aren’t incentivized to Only believe hypotheses with more coherence.