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In the absence of evidence, what is the line between a "reasonable suspicion" and a "conspiracy theory"?
by tqi 4y ago
In the absence of evidence, what is the line between a "reasonable suspicion" and a "conspiracy theory"?
- brookst 4y agoYou said it yourself -- it's the difference between a suspicion, aka hypothesis, and theory, aka explanation based on evidence. The problem with conspiracy theorists isn't that they think unlikely things might have happened, it's that they are 100% convicted that unlikely things are the only possible explanation, and (typically) that any evidence to the contrary is just part of the conspiracy.