re: #621 GeneJockey

Metaconspiracy? Like, “I never metaconspiracy that made sense!”
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Seriously, though, I’ve urged people to start treating Conspiracy Theories the way you would any hypothesis. Hypotheses make predictions, so what does any particular conspiracy theory predict? The big problem with just about all of them is that they require hundreds, even thousands of people to all keep the secret.

Global Warming a hoax? Then thousands of scientists and all their post docs, grad students, and RAs ALL know the truth, and NOT ONE has come forward to expose it.

CIA and FBI killed JFK for LBJ? All those folks who had to have been in on it, and not one confessed on his deathbed?

All very true; but to a true conspiracist, the very fact that none of their conspiracies bear fruit is simply proof of a conspiracy far wider than they had initially anticipated or imagined.