Science of Conspiracy Theories.

@Metal-Brain
Ah, just like Trump's phone call to Zelensky, a PERFECT phone call. Sure, perfect for a mob boss.

@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
Ah, just like Trump's phone call to Zelensky, a PERFECT phone call. Sure, perfect for a mob boss.

Investigations are bad? You must think Biden is dirty if you oppose an investigation into him and his son. If he wasn't dirty you would be all for it.

@metal-brain said
No, you are using the legal definition. Legally you cannot charge a person with conspiracy unless they break a law. That is not the true definition of conspiracy. Notice the definition from Merriam Webster. It says nothing about a requirement for an illegal act or even harm.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy

This is why the secret plan for a sur ...[text shortened]... or more people planning it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy%20of%20silence

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the noun conspiracy in terms of the verb conspire. Its definition of the verb conspire specifies that the collision must be illegal or wrongful. The Oxford definition is identical.

@deepthought said
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the noun conspiracy in terms of the verb conspire. Its definition of the verb conspire specifies that the collision must be illegal or wrongful. The Oxford definition is identical.

Wrongful is not always illegal.

@metal-brain said
Wrongful is not always illegal.

I did not claim that it is. However, it is difficult to reconcile the word wrongful with the words "surprise birthday party".

@deepthought said
I did not claim that it is. However, it is difficult to reconcile the word wrongful with the words "surprise birthday party".

What does a birthday surprise party have to do with what we were talking about? Didn't you bring it up because you falsely claimed it had to be a crime?

@metal-brain said
What does a birthday surprise party have to do with what we were talking about? Didn't you bring it up because you falsely claimed it had to be a crime?

I introduced the "surprise birthday party" in the seventh post on page ten of this thread to demonstrate the problem with your ludicrous interpretation of the word "conspiracy". There is a complete record of the discussion available to anyone who cares to check back, you'd be well advised not to attempt to misrepresent my or anyone else's position in quite such a clumsy fashion.

@deepthought said
I introduced the "surprise birthday party" in the seventh post on page ten of this thread to demonstrate the problem with your ludicrous interpretation of the word "conspiracy". There is a complete record of the discussion available to anyone who cares to check back, you'd be well advised not to attempt to misrepresent my or anyone else's position in quite such a clumsy fashion.

Fine, a surprise birthday party is not a conspiracy unless they know the person hates surprise birthday parties.

You were wrong about it having to be illegal though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS_conspiracy_theory

@Metal-Brain
He WAS investigated several times. You just follow the Trump misinformation campaign right to the end, which will come in November.
Trump is DUPING you and all the rest of your ultrarightwingnut buddies. You are being played and you don't even know it and would never in a million years even acknowledge it.

@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
He WAS investigated several times. You just follow the Trump misinformation campaign right to the end, which will come in November.
Trump is DUPING you and all the rest of your ultrarightwingnut buddies. You are being played and you don't even know it and would never in a million years even acknowledge it.

Trump???
What are you talking about? What does he have to do with scientists claiming SARS and the recent corona virus are genetically engineered?

Are you aware that both of them are race specific? Both of those corona viruses infect Asians and rarely people of European ancestry. The Spanish Flu of 1918 was genetically engineered. The person that did it claims he did it for pandemic research.

You need to stop balking at stuff just because your government denies making GE viruses. Do you expect them to admit they are working on a bio-weapon virus to kill off Asians in China? The need to test it's spread in a population is important to the designing process. The lethal part is not. The ability to kill can be tweaked into it later.

The science to do that exists. Do you deny that?

SARS killed more men than women. I suppose it could just be a coincidence that it killed more of the military gender of Asian people. What if they are trying tweak a virus to kill men as a military tactic and this is another test of their tinkering?

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/483002-men-could-be-more-susceptible-to-the-coronavirus

@Metal-Brain
You jump on anyone touting conspiracy. This is just the latest one. It has been shown this virus came from bats, transmitted to snakes and snakes are a delicacy in China and thence to humans.
Bats started a number of nasty viruses including ebola so play your games if you want but the reality is Covid-19 is natural.

@sonhouse said
@Metal-Brain
You jump on anyone touting conspiracy. This is just the latest one. It has been shown this virus came from bats, transmitted to snakes and snakes are a delicacy in China and thence to humans.
Bats started a number of nasty viruses including ebola so play your games if you want but the reality is Covid-19 is natural.

They used to say it was snakes and now they claim it was bats or some wild cat. They do not know.

@Metal-Brain
They said it was snakes because that was what was sold in the common market where thousands of people buy food and snakes are a delicacy there but the snakes got the virus from bats. Bats are bad news virus wise, for instance ebola came from bats. All you want to do is poo poo ANY science source. That seems to be your hobby and entertainment.