Conspiracy Theories Debate

Users debate the definition of conspiracy, whether specific events or actions constitute conspiracies, and skepticism toward conspiracy theories in political and governmental contexts.

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more_corn Mar 30, 2025 View on HN

Planning one, hence the conspiracy charges. Seems pretty Orwellian to me though.

robbedpeter Feb 5, 2022 View on HN

Ooh, conspiracy time, it's scientologists pulling the strings!

blitzar Nov 4, 2025 View on HN

Is it a conspiracy if they do it?

pmorici Feb 5, 2017 View on HN

Everything? They are implying that their some some conspiracy against them.

adultSwim Sep 26, 2022 View on HN

Apologies for the conspiratorial tone. It's hard for me to take seriously claims from the same people who work in secret to shift public opinion.

King-Aaron Jun 16, 2023 View on HN

"If there was big [x] conspiracy, then someone would talk about it!"> when someone talks about itIt does seem like a pretty silly thing for this person to have done however.

snapcaster Nov 29, 2022 View on HN

The conspiracy i'm referring to was the whole overall scheme, not specifically this this article

spamizbad Jun 3, 2021 View on HN

Yes informing people of what's happening is a conspiracy. Best to keep people ignorant.

breakyerself Dec 23, 2025 View on HN

Unless the conspiracy is being done by malicious idiots with too much power.

api Sep 24, 2017 View on HN

Conspiracy just means multiple people working together in secret toward some common goal. People do that all the time. Why just last week we had a closed door meeting at my company about how we might conspire to create more interest in the user community for our product. That's a conspiracy.Of course there are nutty conspiracy theories but there are nutty math and physics papers too. I feel like the blanket ridicule of any notion of conspiratorial action is meant to discourage any form o