Conspiracy Theories/Quotes

""If you BOUGHT this in EITHER sense of the word? Please, please do us all a favor and jump under a fucking truck. I'm not even joking. You cannot be THIS dumb and still have motor functions. It defies all known laws of science.""

- Moviebob, in his review of X Files - I Want To Believe My Money Back!, regarding Loose Change

""It is a vast conspiracy. And the total lack of evidence is all the evidence I need.""

- Stephen Colbert on Obama's conspiracy to take our guns

"Becquerel: it just feels weird to kind of believe in something considered a conspiracy theory Shugo: Some are insane, others are cold hard fact. Never write something off just because a mainstream media outlet laughed at it on air. Do your own independent research."

- Kiwi Farms thread commenting on Hillary Rodham Clinton ABC15 Arizona article fainting during a 2016 9/11 event

""People are prone to indulging our inherent biases when we try to figure out what happened during some mysterious event, and we are remarkably stubborn about not letting facts get in the way of what we want to believe. We also like to turn anything unexplained into a larger story that follows our own internal sense of logic and will incorporate any random scrap of knowledge that seems to support a pet theory. All of these things tend to combine to turn any case that catches the public eye into a clusterfuck of any wild theories the human mind can concoct, and it seems like the result is often a murky swamp of rumors, half-truths, misunderstandings, and outright lies that make it nigh on impossible to separate fact from fiction. If you send a bunch of hounds into the woods baying after a fox it’s impossible to track the fox later because its paw prints will have been obliterated by the dogs.""

- Kemper, in his review of True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray by James Renner.

""Well, while I acknowledge the existence and sometimes-importance of the Masons and other vaguely-similar groups, I buy into the "Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be more simply explained by people being stupid" way of looking at things.""

- Aaron Brezenski

""Actually, I'm convinced there was a deep and dark conspiracy surrounding the death of Kennedy. There were a lot of suspicious things, but what finally convinced me was this: the trees weren't there by accident. No, no, it was much more deliberate than that. The trees were planted...""

- Ben Cantrick (mackys@dim.com)

"The problem with most conspiracy theories is that they seem to believe that for a group of people to behave in a way detrimental to the common good requires intent."

"A good conspiracy is unprovable. If you can prove it that means they screwed up somewhere along the line."