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.
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.