(April 10, 2015 at 10:40 am)Jenny A Wrote: When I think of conspiracy theorists, I'm thinking of people who believe in impossible theories, not plausible ones, like the actual conspiracy between a number of men to fly planes into buildings. Conspiracy theorists suggest conspiracies that make little sense, and require superhuman powers of secrecy on the part of vast numbers of people.
People who believe in them are more likely to believe in other unlikely things including god.
It not that what they believe is necessarily impossible. It is they believe the absence of high quality evidence for their belief is part of the conspiracy and therefore in itself evidence for their belief.
The wronger it is logically, the righter it is conspiratorially. That is the hallmark of conspiracy theorists.
