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Former Pentagon UFO Investigator Is Pissed Because Congress Believes In Conspiracy Theories (www.vice.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick had a few choice words for the public on his way out the door of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They technically do, but in practice, the word "conspiracy" often has the connotation of being untrue, regardless of being substantiated or not.

People tend to equivocate conspiracies and conspiracy theories.

A conspiracy can't be true, it's crazy to believe in, until it's substantiated, and then it was always true and never crazy to believe in in the first place, so it becomes referred to and remembered as a mundane footnote instead of a conspiracy.