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Why do you call it a conspiracy theory? There's nothing conspiratorial about it. Any politically sensitive organization will inherently do whatever it can do
by baggy_trough 5y ago
Why do you call it a conspiracy theory? There's nothing conspiratorial about it. Any politically sensitive organization will inherently do whatever it can do avoid blame. That's as natural as the force of gravity.
I also don't understand why you say so vehemently that you don't believe it was engineered. Gain of function experiments are something they do in these labs!
- whatshisface 5y agoI don't know what the OP was saying, but a lot of people use "engineered" as a byword for "released on purpose."
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- wutbrodo 5y agoI don't know that people are plucking the word out of its context like that. "The pandemic was engineered" is a substantially different claim than "the virus was engineered", and I have seen vanishingly few claims of the former (in the mainstream; you can nutpick literally any claim in the Internet era).
- cbHXBY1D 5y ago> There's nothing conspiratorial about it. Any politically sensitive organization will inherently do whatever it can do avoid blame. This implies multiple high ranking officials and organizations conspired to hide information and cover up evidence. We have a word for this: conspiracy theory. Americans tend to equate the word "conspiracy theory" with being crazy or ridiculous, but that is not always the case. Many conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Look at the recent Pentagon disclosures on UFOs for instance. Or look at any of the plans the CIA had in the 50s-60s which turned out to be true: MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, Operation Mockingbird, etc. These were "conspiracy" theories that turned out true.
- baggy_trough 5y agoI think of it more like the Illuminati myself. Normal bureaucratic blame shifting hardly merits the term.
- cbHXBY1D 5y agoThere's a lot of interesting conspiracy theories about why that is the case. Most people point to one of the Warren Commission documents obtained via FOIA about how the CIA must discredit people who doubt the official JFK assassination narrative and have them associated with communists.
- gnopgnip 5y agoBecause any evidence that disproves the theory only makes it stronger for those that believe it is a conspiracy. Not that everyone that believes in this believes it is a conspiracy.