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Originally Posted by troutman
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Two criticisms:
1. The trouble with conspiracies is they can only be judged by their failures, a successful conspiracy can't be analyzed or dissected.
2. A successful conspiracy doesn't require everyone involved to buy in or even be aware of a conspiracy. When you deal with institutions that are very compartmentalized, such as the military or corporations, a large scale conspiracy can be pulled off with only a handful of people pulling the strings and they can be controlled completely through blackmail. Get them drugged, take some pictures of them with naked little kids and they'll chew their own arm off before outing their conspirators.
The catholic church ran a pretty successful global pedophilia ring for a long time (possibly centuries), even if a conspiracy is doomed to be found on a long enough timeline, that doesn't mean it can't do a tremendous amount of damage.