conspiracy theorists sometimes seem like reasonable and knowledgeable people, but then they come out with this ridiculous stuff and i never know what to do at that point
It sorta makes me wish there was a term that didn’t have the cultural baggage of “conspiracy theorist”.
There is a wide range of conspiracy theories, from “completely outlandish” to “unlikely” to “plausible.”
Consider these three:
1) The Soviets attempted to put a man into space before Yuri Gagarin. The attempt failed, he died, and the Soviets covered up the attempt to avoid the negative publicity.
2) The US has a second, secret space program managed by the military.
3) The US secret space program is based on recovered alien technology, which was reverse engineered and put into practice without ever being declassified. They have several very large spacecraft (“Solar Warden”) that are manned by people who are taken as young adults, spend twenty years of service in space, and who then have their memories wiped and are transported back in time to a point before they enlisted. This program is called “Twenty and Back.”
… there are people out there who believe all three of these.
I find the first to be completely plausible - even likely - though I’ve not seen enough evidence to be convinced it’s necessarily true. The second is plausible but unlikely to be true on a scale that would be really surprising. The third… c’mon.
As it is, as a culture we seem to lump people who are open to believing things like the first two may be true in with people who believe the the third. That’s probably doing us a disservice.
There is a wide range of conspiracy theories, from “completely outlandish” to “unlikely” to “plausible.”
Consider these three:
1) The Soviets attempted to put a man into space before Yuri Gagarin. The attempt failed, he died, and the Soviets covered up the attempt to avoid the negative publicity.
2) The US has a second, secret space program managed by the military.
3) The US secret space program is based on recovered alien technology, which was reverse engineered and put into practice without ever being declassified. They have several very large spacecraft (“Solar Warden”) that are manned by people who are taken as young adults, spend twenty years of service in space, and who then have their memories wiped and are transported back in time to a point before they enlisted. This program is called “Twenty and Back.”
… there are people out there who believe all three of these.
I find the first to be completely plausible - even likely - though I’ve not seen enough evidence to be convinced it’s necessarily true. The second is plausible but unlikely to be true on a scale that would be really surprising. The third… c’mon.
As it is, as a culture we seem to lump people who are open to believing things like the first two may be true in with people who believe the the third. That’s probably doing us a disservice.