5 Ways Every Conspiracy Theory Makes the World a Worse Place

[superpatriotman]

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http://www.cracked.com/article_21341_5-ways-every-conspiracy-theory-makes-world-worse_p2.html

#5. The More Information People Have Access to, the Worse It Gets

...See, conspiracy buffs have a very specific method -- they'll pore through the available data until they find something that confirms their belief, like an odd shadow in a single moon landing photo that somehow proves the whole thing was the most expensive and pointless hoax of all time (seriously, if they were going to fake it, couldn't they have thrown in some aliens or something to make it interesting?). They ignore all of the other evidence, so the sheer volume of available data actually makes their job easier...

#4. People Are Dying

...So, as a result of parents not vaccinating children against diseases, we're seeing increased numbers of diseases such as whooping cough and measles. In 2012, the U.S. suffered its worst outbreak of whooping cough in 70 years; in Washington state, there were over 2,520 cases of the disease, a 1,300 percent increase over the previous year, all because the state has the highest rates of parents refusing vaccination...

#3. It's a For-Profit Industry

...However, none can hold a candle to the money generated by professional talk radio hucksters like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. Through their individual media empires (which cover the media of print, radio, TV, the Internet, and penis-powering vitality serum), Jones and Beck alone rake in up to $10 million and $45 million a year, respectively. Hell, they should be thanking the Illuminati for that kind of revenue stream...

#2. They Bring Out the Worst in People

...Or ask Charlie Veitch, a former prominent 9/11 conspiracy theorist who later changed his mind. After going on YouTube to admit that he no longer thought 9/11 was an inside job, he had to go into hiding as thousands of conspiracy theorists from around the world set upon him with death threats. Someone contacted his mother to tell her that Veitch was a pedophile, and Alex Jones went on record to call him a sociopath...

#1. They Make It Impossible to Fix the Real Problems

...Meanwhile, as reports on climate change and the increasingly terrifying effects keep piling up, we're still trying (and failing) to convince people that it's a real thing that humans caused. Hell, even the president had to actually take time out of running the country to show his birth certificate. All because of this weird flaw in the human mind that makes us gravitate toward the most improbable version of events, and then congratulate ourselves for having the "courage" to stand up against those damned "experts" telling us we're wrong...

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[Warpy]

1. Quibble: the LESS information people have, the worse it gets

because the government/Big Pill/Illuminati/Pan Galactic Lizard Overlords are conspiring to make sure we don't find out what they're really up to. If information does eventually get released, it's just too little, too late. The conspiracy theory has become a BELIEF. You can change opinions fairly easily, but beliefs are impervious to facts. The believer has to be buried under the brick wall that falls on top of him.