A conspiracy is when people collude in secret. A conspiracy theory is a theory that some people collude in secret. Conspiracy theories are true when they correspond to true conspiracies.
People get the idea that theory means wrong or imaginary when it really means the concept of something rather than the actual thing. But the concept can be correct and fully proven like the theory of math or physics.
My point is it’s a mistake to conflate anything labeled a conspiracy theory as being automatically false, which is often what happens, or the label is applied something that’s already false. Many theories turn out to be true
Exactly, if they're true it's a conspiracy fact or just a conspiracy.
And even if they do NOT take kickbacks, there's no financial incentive at all to "link" to a sales page that doesn't offer affiliate links, where there is one to link. And so the best way to handle this is to not review at all products that aren't available through said sites.
Think Southwest tickets not being available from aggregators.
“A conspiracy theory is not the same as a conspiracy; instead, it refers to a hypothesized conspiracy…”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
A conspiracy is when people collude in secret. A conspiracy theory is a theory that some people collude in secret. Conspiracy theories are true when they correspond to true conspiracies.
People get the idea that theory means wrong or imaginary when it really means the concept of something rather than the actual thing. But the concept can be correct and fully proven like the theory of math or physics.
My point is it’s a mistake to conflate anything labeled a conspiracy theory as being automatically false, which is often what happens, or the label is applied something that’s already false. Many theories turn out to be true
Exactly, if they're true it's a conspiracy fact or just a conspiracy.
And even if they do NOT take kickbacks, there's no financial incentive at all to "link" to a sales page that doesn't offer affiliate links, where there is one to link. And so the best way to handle this is to not review at all products that aren't available through said sites.
Think Southwest tickets not being available from aggregators.
> And even if they do NOT take kickbacks, there's no financial incentive at all to "link" to a sales page that doesn't offer affiliate links…
And yet Wirecutter does this.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-stuff-from-i...
Every prosecutor is a conspiracy theorist. The courts decide whether the conspiracy theory corresponds to a real conspiracy.