Conspiracy Theories/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Becquerel''': it just feels weird to kind of believe in something considered a conspiracy theory

'''Shugo''': Some are insane, [[Truth in Television|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.

 

{{quote|''"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 [[True Crime|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 [http://kempersbookblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/lost-in-mystery.html review] of ''True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray'' by James Renner.}}