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** "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-Flag Operation]]. The resulting number was ''over 100,000''. Of course, that has nothing on the [[Flat Earth Society]], whose pet theory would include the cooperation of the entire Southern Hemisphere, over a billion people.
** Noam Chomsky -- who is himself one of the US government's harshest critics and has his own suite of conspiracy theories about US clandestine activities -- has pointed out several main flaws with 9/11 conspiracies.
*** If the US government is prepared to murder thousands of its own citizens for selfish or conspiratorial motives, Noam Chomsky himself would have been dead ''years'' ago. Not surprising he spotted the flaw in the Truthers' logic here, yes.
* 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.
* Likewise, religious apologists can come up with very odd rationalisations of their beliefs. These explanations tend to only make things look worse, especially when morality is involved.
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