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* One of the many reasons [[Conspiracy Theories]] are ridiculed is that their "explanations" of perceived inconsistencies only raises further (and much dumber) questions, one of the more common being "How would you keep something like that a secret?"
** "Who could possibly benefit from this?" being another common one.
** [http://www.cracked.com/article_15740_was-911-inside-job.html David Wong], in an attempt to disprove the 9/11 conspiracy theories, actually calculated the number of people they would have had to to pay off or eliminate to guarantee the success of the [[False
** Noam Chomsky has pointed out several main flaws with 9/11 conspiracies - for instance, the (dubious) assumption that the US Government benefited from it doesn't logically mean they ''planned'' it. If the US government really was prepared to murder thousands of its own citizens for greed, why would it then allow people to expose it online, given that it has already demonstrated a total disregard for human rights?
* Most [[Urban Legends]] also fall under this trope for the same reason as [[Conspiracy Theories]]. It doesn't take long for any critical observer to pick apart such stories, usually by pointing out that the city where they happen is never specified, or in the case of the story happening to "the friend of a friend" that the person telling the story is ''never'' able to give the name of that person.
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