I will disagree with everyone. The "fact" is that none of you know what other people are thinking. It certainly seems like you do, but that is an illusion. I

I will disagree with everyone. The "fact" is that none of you know what other people are thinking. It certainly seems like you do, but that is an illusion. Inferring the beliefs of others from a tiny amount of (questionable) data is yet another kind of magical thinking. To start to get a more accurate estimate of what other people (conspiracy theorists in this case) are actually thinking requires one to exert the necessary effort in particular actions, the end result hopefully being the ability to more accurately glean what they are thinking from the words they actually write. But it seems no one is willing to put in that effort, perhaps because they want a quick and easy solution. > When they do show effort it is more do only the things that can prove them right, failure is not an option for them. Indeed. Such is the nature of the human mind, as well as networked collections of them. This very thread, like many others, is chock full of similar thinking, but the nature of the mind seems to render people unable to realize it.