This rather condescending article seems to define "conspiracy theory" as something that is always by definition untrue, rather than something that may ultimately be true but is "officially" considered untrue at the current time.
It is of course a simple matter to disapprove the notion that all conspiracy theories have been false. Many prove to be true.
I remember well when the notion that LIBOR looked manipulated was ridiculed as a conspiracy theory. Years later it was front page news.
Are most conspiracy theories false? Probably.
But the notion that "talking to conspiracy theorists" starts with a presumption of superiority of one's own assumptions is to be fundamentally unscientific -- and is often merely an appeal to authority.
Take the death of Jeffrey Epstein: I place myself squarely on the side of the conspiracy theorists. How would you "talk to me"?
That is why they should call them "conspiracy myths". Of course there are actual conspiracies. But most real conspiracies are actually pretty simple and don't involve thousands of people around the word shutting up.
I think the article gives some pretty good tips eveb form normal discussions about things we disagree about. So if you think, Jeffrey Epsteins death is a conspiracy, it's something else than believing, G5-towers all arou d the world are spreading Corona. Epstein obviously was part of a consiracy - that is way he was in jail. Harvey Weinstein was part of a consiracy. People knew whta they were doing and they helped them keep doing what they were doing.
That is hiw I would start. And if I wanted to convince you of a different view on Epsteins case, I'd ask you something.
There's a difference between a conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorists.
The article is a bit loose with using both interchangeably, but it's clearly about conspiracy theorists - people for whom conspiracy theories are a pastime.
From my own experiences of people who would define themselves this way, this seems to manifest itself in enjoying discovering new conspiracies from the conspiracy theorist community. And, perhaps more importantly, the conspiracies need to stay conspiracies for the most satisfaction. It's not a desire to unmask the truth so that the world can agree and benefit, it's the buzz of superiority from being in an "enlightened" minority. It is difficult to talk to these people about these topics, hence the article.
> Take the death of Jeffrey Epstein: I place myself squarely on the side of the conspiracy theorists. How would you "talk to me"?
I wouldn't because I think your belief is not bad.
I think the problem with Epstein is the moronic centrist public who can't differentiate between the legal definition of Human Trafficking and the Hollywood definition.
But, I would say to you if you want me to try, you are correct, something happened. But I think it was the complex emergence from a system, conspiracies like this are not people sitting around tables, it's subtle behaviours amongst large groups of people that cause things to happen.
Which ones? Most conspiracy theories are over-thought, under-researched, pure horseshit. Out of the most well-known, "the moon landing was faked" - false, based on no real evidence and a whole lot of denying reality. "The earth is flat" - absolutely false. "5G towers cause COVID" - it's really not difficult to understand how ridiculous this one is. And the conspiracies just keep getting crazier from there...
Sorry, no, "many prove true" is just not workable.
Check out (the now unfortunately named) CoronaSDK from (the also unfortunately named) Corona Labs. It's all Lua based and is now entirely MIT open sourced.
One of the easiest to code cross platform development languages there is.
I was introduced to game development (and my first "real" project) through CoronaSDK 3-4 years ago. Wrote a very simple android game. Ah it was fun! :-)
Whoa! CoronaSDK got opensourced?! It was the hype back in 2012-15ish era. It and Ionic etc. Always wanted to learn something like that but never got beyond backend dev thanks to overloading office work by my jerk employer back then. Will definitely check it out now, now that I'm in a better place and have weekdays to myself purely.
