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Thread #69378   Message #1175981
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-May-04 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: What the CIA taught me
Subject: RE: BS: What the CIA taught me
It's absurd the way "conspiracy theory" gets used. Conspiracies if some sort - agreements between people to act in consort, and to conceal some aspects of the truth - are universal. In fact they are legally protected - "commercial confidentiality" "official secrets".

Anyone speculating about things like that is necessarily constructing a "conspiracy theory", and we do it as a matter of course. Some theories are right, some are wrong, some are based on the known facts, some are based on ignoring the known facts.

But the idea that, just by calling something a "conspiracy theory", you are somehow proving that it is worthless is a bit ridiculous.