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by Mat342 1910 days ago
Wait people can't debunk dumdum conspiracy theories? sad
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There's an evolutionary theory of conspiracy theories (that I just made up) that they self-select for plausible unfalsifiability. If a theory has a weakness can be proven incorrect, people will eventually patch it with an ephemeral insinuation that "you know what happened here" and move on.