Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice

Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice by tmn on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:54PM (#27684364)

The fallacy with that 9-11 rebuttal is that in its main stream form, 9-11 is as unprecedented as the conspiracy they are saying is far fetched. Why is it more infeasible to assume there was some inside help or looking the other way? Add in incentives as a result of the act, Israel’s known knowledge and surveillance of the act, seems pretty clear there’s more to it.

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Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice by fighterpilot on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:50AM (#27687046)

It's more infeasible because it's massively more complicated. Occam's Razor.

Just because they're two unprecedented scenarios doesn't mean they're equally simple explanations.

Not only do you need the complicity of Bin Laden and his associates, you also need the complicity of many people within the US and you need them all to shut up about it and you need Bin Laden and his associates to lie about what really happened and you need to hide any trace of this from investigators. This is massively more complicated than the banal explanation that the small group of people who say they did it, actually did it.

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Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice by jcbrand on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:12AM (#27698018)

You don't necessarily need the complicity of Bin Laden, or that many people.

You just need your intelligence agencies to keep track of what he is doing and allow him to continue because the attack suits your purpose (e.g. finding an excuse to attack Iraq).

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Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice by fighterpilot on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:21AM (#27699308)

That's a much more plausible version. It's still more complicated, though, and requires the complicity of many more people, and is therefore less likely to be true. There's also the rule of thumb that we shouldn't presume malice when incompetence fits.

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Re:Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice by perl4ever on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:03AM (#27684730)

Any conspiracy powerful enough to affect world events in a major way would be the source of some or all of the popular conspiracy theories. So they tell you something, but not taken at face value.

People have been talking about Israeli and Saudi conspiracies since it happened, so I think it's safe to assume that is what the real conspiracy wants people to think.

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