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Why People Fall for Conspiracy Theories: because too often they are right.
by postalrat 5y ago
Why People Fall for Conspiracy Theories: because too often they are right.
- recursivedoubts 5y agoIf the elites don't want the rest of us trying to figure out their conspiracies, perhaps they could stop conspiring. The founding of the federal reserve springs to mind...
- jl6 5y agoGo on, which conspiracy theories are right?
- postalrat 5y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/5-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-2015-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/5-conspiracy-theories-that-t... There's a couple for you. Search google for more.
- jl6 5y agoThank you for the examples but I’m afraid I’m unimpressed by the article. Those are all covert government ops - exactly the kind of thing you’d expect classified military/intelligence organizations to be doing. Their existence says nothing about what contemporary theorists were claiming at the time. What I would be really interested in seeing is some contemporary claims, e.g. what were people claiming about COINTELPRO in 1960? Was it based on evidence? Should we have believed someone based on the information available at the time? Was there a theory that turned out to be true because it was well-founded, or were there dozens of similar equally unfounded theories and one of them turned out to be true by chance? The failing of conspiracy theorism is not in being wrong, but in having utter conviction of being right without sound rationale. To learn from these examples, we need to see the theories, not the conspiracies.
- postalrat 5y agoThere are current conspiracies regarding the source of the leaked Hillary Clinton's emails, the origin of Covid-19, UFO cover up, QAnon. None have solid evidence. Will any be proven to be true?