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>A conspiracy theory is merely a theory without corroborating evidence. The reason conspiracy theorists tend to be disbelieved is that, more often than not, their assertions are a matter of faith, and when they're right, they're right in the way a stopped analog clock is right twice a day. If someone's paranoid fantasies happen to correspond to reality, that doesn't make them more trustworthy.

I completely agree with that. But then there are many official truths that don't hold up to that regard. In many shady events, there are state-level interests, and many of parties involved have interests themselves.

For example, many of the anti-conspiracy researchers are trying to debunk everything they perceive could help the right-wing movements. But doing so deviate them from the pursuit of truth much too often... and make them embarass themselves in such ways.

If it wasn't for whistleblowers, we wouldn't have much truth in the news...




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