> Most people, probably quite reasonably, just take what they have been told about their institutions their entire life as a baseline. If you ask them as they're walking down the street, they probably won't be able to come up with principled objections to 9/11 truthers. They will reject it (rightly or wrongly) because they need to go to work, and it's simply not in the category of things they're willing to believe.

So the government can conspire to run a underage sex ring by proxy through one of its spies, but the government conspiring to kill a person in prison is imposible.

I'm not charmed by this conspiracy theory, it's quite possible Epstein killed himself, but I really hate this kind of performative skepticism.