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Facts about 'conspiracy theory'
- Facts are irrelevant
- Possibilty is exchanged for probability
- All scientific methods are deemed not relevant
- The 'truth' can never be 'exposed' because
a) There are absolute powers who control the truth and therefore will
'never allow it' to be released OR those who know the truth are
benevolent and don't want to release 'the truth' because 'society
couldn't hadle it'
b) Anyone who could expose the truth is being blackmailed and can't
for fear of being killed / having their loved ones killled
c) People who knew the truth were killed or died
- All valid, logical questions are ignored and instead answered with questions about things about which no facts are known - only speculations and hypotheses. More weight is placed on improbable yet possible hypotheses rather than probable causes
- Most conspiracy believers suffer massive confirmation bias, spending nearly all their time shoring up their baseless beliefs and creating new theories rather than exploring the most probably causes (see ockham's razor)
- Conspiracy theorists routinely 'piggy back' their theories on current social and political trends, for example:
a) the '9/11 truth movement' has hitched it's car to anti-bush, anti-
republican politics. Anyone who questions 9/11 truth theories is instantly
labelled 'a bush lover' or 'a fox news watcher', etc.
b) the JFK asssination camp is heavily linked to being a CIA or organized
crime conspiracy. The cold war was at its height in the 1960s and the CIA
was a cery active spy organization. As well, organized crime played a big role in Cuba and in the US in general It makes sense then that given this social climate, the conspiracies would reflect it.
I could go on. I will just say this - Questioning for the sake of questioning is not an intellectual pursuit, and is simply a playground for the very 'masses' that are so often referenced. Who are the real 'sheep'?
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I died.
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