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?

• ptz@dubvee.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For every real one that is eventually discovered, there’s 10,000 flying around in real time that are total bunk.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All I’m saying is the first attempt on MLK’s life came from a schizophrenic black woman during the height of MKUltra’s operations while she babbled about things the CIA hates, and their favorite test subjects were disenfranchised schizophrenics.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the important difference between conspiracies and conspiracy theories. Once there’s actual evidence, it’s no longer a conspiracy theory.

  For example, the fact MK Ultra was real does not prove the fact we are ruled by lizards.

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  • FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Evidence existing is a very low bar, It’s when it’s proved beyond reasonable doubt that it stops being a theory.

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    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I prefer to think of it as more of a conspiracy hypothesis, really”

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      • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In a scientific setting that would be the correct term. A theory is not synonymous to a guess, but rather a well-substantiated explanation of fact.

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