You write, "Conspiracy theorists have some pretty stupid ideas, but they’ve often considered their subject more thoroughly than most people who correctly dismiss their theories."
I find it endlessly interesting, and very under discussed, how the UFO wackos with crazy hair were right all along, and the science clergy who dismissed them with a lazy wave of the hand were wrong.
LESSON: Be wary of experts, they typically have too much investment in the status quo to be truly objective.
You write, "Conspiracy theorists have some pretty stupid ideas, but they’ve often considered their subject more thoroughly than most people who correctly dismiss their theories."
I find it endlessly interesting, and very under discussed, how the UFO wackos with crazy hair were right all along, and the science clergy who dismissed them with a lazy wave of the hand were wrong.
LESSON: Be wary of experts, they typically have too much investment in the status quo to be truly objective.