Saturday, November 19, 2022

The Problem With Conspiracy Theories?

 Once in a while, you are told a story, and your BS-meter alerts, and you categorize the story to be a conspiracy theory.  The problem is.....a week later....a month later...a year later.....it's not a conspiracy theory.

The best example I can give?

We were all told in the 1960s and 1970s....that some scientist had developed a machine to determine if you were gay.  It was occasionally brought up....people laughed over the idea, and it just lingered there as a conspiracy theory.

Well...the Canadian government did actually go out and hire a guy (Frank Robert Way) to build a device.  For roughly 20 years....it lingered around and was stamped as a governmental 'asset'.

Other than working like a lie-detector...it was a fairly bogus piece of equipment.  However.....it went from conspiracy theory....to reality. 

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