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Sometimes conspiracy theories are true. They are still conspiracy theories
by hammock 4y ago
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true. They are still conspiracy theories
- CharlesW 4y ago“A conspiracy theory is not the same as a conspiracy; instead, it refers to a hypothesized conspiracy…” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
- bombcar 4y agoExactly, if they're true it's a conspiracy fact or just a conspiracy. And even if they do NOT take kickbacks, there's no financial incentive at all to "link" to a sales page that doesn't offer affiliate links, where there is one to link. And so the best way to handle this is to not review at all products that aren't available through said sites. Think Southwest tickets not being available from aggregators.
- CharlesW 4y ago> And even if they do NOT take kickbacks, there's no financial incentive at all to "link" to a sales page that doesn't offer affiliate links… And yet Wirecutter does this. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-stuff-from-ikea/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-stuff-from-i...
- jstanley 4y agoA conspiracy is when people collude in secret. A conspiracy theory is a theory that some people collude in secret. Conspiracy theories are true when they correspond to true conspiracies.
- Gigachad 4y agoPeople get the idea that theory means wrong or imaginary when it really means the concept of something rather than the actual thing. But the concept can be correct and fully proven like the theory of math or physics.
- hammock 4y agoMy point is it’s a mistake to conflate anything labeled a conspiracy theory as being automatically false, which is often what happens, or the label is applied something that’s already false. Many theories turn out to be true
- oldgradstudent 4y agoEvery prosecutor is a conspiracy theorist. The courts decide whether the conspiracy theory corresponds to a real conspiracy.