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The kind of conspiracies that happen all the time are tiny ones, and typically (and that's how the word is most often defined in text) about a small group plann
by Tor3 3y ago
The kind of conspiracies that happen all the time are tiny ones, and typically (and that's how the word is most often defined in text) about a small group planning to do something illegal.
The term "conspiracy theory" is instead used about when a (typically very large) group of people creates a conspiracy to suppress a scientific or factual truth, and that does not happen all the time - it's very hard to find even one case like that. So no, conspiracies, in this kind of context, does not happen all the time.
- suoduandao3 3y agoWhat would you call WMDs in Iraq? Do you have an alternate name for this kind of mass deception if not conspiracy?
- Tor3 3y agoThat wasn't exactly mass deception. It was basically group think inside a certain administration, supported by an at that time must-keep-in-sync-with-them UK prime IIRC. Most of Europe had access to more information and knew it to be incorrect (there were investigative TV programs etc showing why). Most people actually believed that the WMD claim was just a stunt to make an excuse for going in and finally finish the '91 war. It certainly wasn't a global conspiracy by scientists in any sense.