Conspiracy Scope Inflation

A conspiracy theory cannot stay the same size. It constantly has to grow because every time you find a way to disprove the conspiracy it creates a bigger conspiracy as you have to create sub-conspiracies to account for the "false" evidence that disproves the conspiracy. This process is what I'm calling Conspiracy Scope Inflation.

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SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I think this is actually quite a powerful insight.

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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