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by fsflover 227 days ago
Snowden proved that conspiracy theorists were right.
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Broken clocks are occasionally right. Yet intelligent people never seem to use them to tell time...
He wasn't the only one.
What fraction of conspiracy theories have proven correct, at a Snowden-ish level?

My sense is that conspiracy theorists are essentially a cron job crying "Wolf!" every 60 seconds. The occasional real-world wolf does not justify paying any attention to the alarms. OTOH, it's a false dichotomy to believe that the false alarms prove the non-existence of wolves.