Comment on How do conspiracy theorists get all of their coveted secret government information if it's meant to be hidden and the government would never hand it over?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

depends on the conspiracy theory.

real conspiracies; like MK-Ultra, we find out through leaks, declassification and similar sources.

The loony-bin conspiracy theories like “moon landing hoax” (any one with a ham radio could track the apollo CSM as it went to the moon, there’s no way to hide such a trip. there’s really no way to fake those signals.) are mostly sourced from bullshit.

another great example of this is the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy. Which… uh… started as satire. there’s plenty of ways they get started, but they all boil down to bullshit.

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