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Comment by bell-cot

2 days ago

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.