posted on Nov, 9 2010 @ 04:04 AM
I only read the first page of replies here so if the following has already been said please forgive me.
It needs to be pointed out that there is a big difference between a "conspiracy" and a "Conspiracy Theory". Conspiracies do in deed happen
all the time. Three guys decide to rob a liquor store or two guys plan to kidnap and rape someone or what have you...these things happen. Conspiracies
are more often than not exposed because humans are absolutely TERRIBLE at keeping secrets.
Conspiracy THEORIES on the other hand are, as far as I can find, universally false. They employ Rube Goldberg style mechanisms for starters.
Inordinately complicated devices to achieve relatively simple ends. A perfect example of this are the 9/11 CTs wherein CTers propose that the most
intellectually bankrupt administration in American history somehow orchestrated a treasonous conspiracy to murder 3,000 innocent people, employing
what would have to be tens of thousands of international co-conspirators(with no one stepping up to be the whistle-blowing hero?!), risking death by
firing squad and such, framing the WRONG COUNTRY just so they could have an alleged pretense for war against an entirely different nation?!
This is not the place for 9/11 debates and I have no interest in getting into that here but rather to make my point about the definition of
"conspiracy theory" being, by definition a different animal than a simple "conspiracy".