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So what are Conspiracy theories?

Okay, so we know that conspiracies are real.

Real people plan them and they really carry them out.

And if they are bad conspiracies, they can hurt a lot of people.

So remember that the tobacco bosses kept their businesses going for decades after they

learned that many smokers died of lung cancer.

And people aren't stupid.

They are understandably suspicious when they start learning about stories like this.

They know that conspiracies happen and they don't like it.

Remember too that real conspiracies are usually only discovered long after they've ended.

And that's really, really frustrating.

One thing that can make some people feel better about that frustration is beginning to imagine

what conspiracies might be going on right now.

Because if they are right about what they imagine, they might have the chance to be a hero,

to save the world from some terrible thing.

They might feel less helpless about bad things happening.

Because if you can discover what the bad thing is before it's really fully happened, you

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