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Originally Posted by Matata
So there is no such thing as conspiracies? Every politician, corporation and government can be safely assumed to be completely transparent about their motivations and actions?
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That’s not the definition of a conspiracy theory though. Not that there is a good one.
For example would it have been a conspiracy theory to state that oil companies conspired to hide what and when they new about global warming? I don’t think prior to this knowledge becoming public it would have been conspiratorial to say that oil companies knew at least as much as public reasearch.
Whereas it is a conspiracy to say that they and car companies surpressed the creation of an electric vehicle.
In my opinion the difference between the two is one of incentives. It doesn’t make sense that a car company wouldn’t make a profit when given the opportunity. And a working profitable EV1 would have done that.
Whereas it makes sense for oil companies to surpass research.
In general conspiracy theories arise from a failure to apply occams or hanlans razor.