conspiracy theories

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golem

Feb 27, 2006
8:36 AM EDT
What do you have against conspiracy theories? Is it your theory that there is no such thing as a conspiracy?

Essentially conspiracy simply means people talking together to accomplish some purpose. Do you imagine that people never talk to each other?
tadelste

Feb 27, 2006
8:49 AM EDT
golem: I don't have anything against conspiracy theories. Where did you get that? I explained them but didn't make a judgment.

Quoting:So, what qualifies as a conspiracy theory?

If someone claims that people work in secret to obtain some negative goal but cannot supply empirical evidence, then you have a conspiracy theory. You can easily identify one because they have a "they or them" in the treatise. As they say, that's what makes a good conspiracy theory.

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