Meanwhile in CanadaDefinition:
Conspiracy Theory
- A belief that the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community, who have spent their lives researching the subject, missed something you figured out in two minutes due to your superior Google researching skills.
Sheldon@MeanwhileinCanada next level conspiracy theory would be all of the above, but you still count Google as part of the conspiracy because you also happen to be smarter than Google.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@MeanwhileinCanada You just accurately described my 2nd spouse. Mad as a box of frogs.
Third spruce tree on the left@bytebro @MeanwhileinCanada Sack of hammers you say?
Vertana@MeanwhileinCanada This is because the deep state drowns all the truly good research and only allows us to see some of it. What we’re allowed to see. I, however, and I alone am untethered and can reveal the truth to you all!
GLCFaith in Google is evidence of the
resilience of the human spirit.
Specifically, "the triumph of hope over experience."
Peter Butler@MeanwhileinCanada They didn’t “miss” anything
The entire body of scientists, academics, doctors, nurses, specialists, and expert journalists are part of the conspiracy
They’re *all* actively working to promote lies, and nothing about it ever leaks because the cabal is so powerful
🙄 x 1,000,000
Violet@MeanwhileinCanada
Ah, but the scientists didn't use a hundred meters of red string in intricate patterns across a bulletin board that looks like a random collage or faces and places!
Ah, but the scientists didn't use a hundred meters of red string in intricate patterns across a bulletin board that looks like a random collage or faces and places!
Menno@MeanwhileinCanada
But it all makes sense, because their livelihood depends on it.
That's why they all agree, because they're afraid to speak out.
It's not because I'm dead wrong. Can't be!
But it all makes sense, because their livelihood depends on it.
That's why they all agree, because they're afraid to speak out.
It's not because I'm dead wrong. Can't be!
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸@MeanwhileinCanada My first test of the viability of a conspiracy is: How many people with apparently opposing interests would have to be in on it?
Truther conspiracy requires all the passengers on those planes to have been disappeared or dead with none of them speaking out and none of their families figuring it out.
Birther conspiracy requires the state of Hawaii government, many bureaucrats along the chain, faking a birth certificate, not to mention Obama’s family.
Billionaires colluding to destroy everything to make more money? No conflicts of interest. Putin colluding with Trump? No conflicts of interest. Christian Nationalists plotting to take over America? They’ve openly documented their own plans in detail for decades and have been internally consistent in their goals.
Dan Riley@corbden @MeanwhileinCanada test 2, does it depend on vast numbers of academic scientists keeping a secret? We really, really, truly suck at that.
CreatorDon@MeanwhileinCanada WHO funds the scientist? WHO funds the conspiracy theorist? $$$$$.
Kerry Mitchell 🍁@MeanwhileinCanada Most conspiracy theories aren’t about science as much as trust in authorities and official accounts of events. How’s Kate Middleton really doing? Did the Boeing guy really kill himself? Jeffrey Epstein?
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@MeanwhileinCanada In this thread:
Apfel@MeanwhileinCanada Conspiracy theory is a dysphemism. Conspiracy theories can be accurate or not.
culpaplex@Apfel @MeanwhileinCanada My favorite conspiracy theory is that the CIA coined the term conspiracy theory to discredit conspiracy theories.
@MeanwhileinCanada delusion has taken over and people overwhelmingly love nonsense and bubbles more than anything and the truth doesn’t matter to them.
Paul Will Gamble 
🇨🇦@MeanwhileinCanada
Typical cover-up talk!!!
Typical cover-up talk!!!
Ellie@MeanwhileinCanada Once upon a time, my superior google researching skills would have located papers explaining the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community. Now it just turns up llm-generated rage-bait. 😥
Les capsules du prof Lutz@MeanwhileinCanada raah ça fait chier. Ce n'est pas une définition mais un exemple. Certaines conspirations SONT AVÉRÉES.
J.H.NoyesExcept it happens sometimes. Dogmas and biases introduced through structured training and custom can blind. For example, this recent discovery of murmuration-like phenomena in elliptic curves probably wouldn't have happened if the person that discovered it had normalized his data, as professionals in the field are trained to do.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/elliptic-curve-murmurations-found-with-ai-take-flight-20240305/
bouriquet@MeanwhileinCanada Isn’t that the same concept that AI is based on?