"Mini" Decoding of Michael Shermer's Advice on Conspiracy Theories
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The Confluence of Manufactured Conspiracy Theories
Australian spy agencies planted bugs in the rooms of East Timor to find out what their private discussions were about these negotiations so that they would have an edge. It all came to light, complete stuff up and pretty underhand behaviour. I'm sorry to break it to people, but this is the kind of underhanded thing that governments or powerful organisations, companies, whatever do on a regular basis. This is not the same as a conspiracy theory. Again, it's the conflation of, oh, look, our government, which you think is so great, did experiments on the Tuskegee thing and stuff like that. That actually did some bad things, believe it or not. So that
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