John Lisle
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Because it's naturally a thing that you would assume could not have taken place.
Well, a conspiracy, I mean, to me, a conspiracy is just a secret plot to do something.
There are a lot of secret plots, of course.
Now, I mean, there are conspiracy theories in the sense that there are stuff that people make up and isn't actually true.
But to say conspiracies themselves are necessarily false, well, any secret plot is a conspiracy theory.
You know, in fact, that actually ties in at the end of this book.
I talk about a little bit about kind of the what's kind of called censorship through noise.
The idea that we can put so much noise out there that no one's really going to know what to trust.
And so I give an example of the idea that AIDS was created in a government laboratory like Fort Dedrick.
And then in the really 1980s, there was a Soviet kind of propaganda mouthpiece newspaper in India called The Patriot.
And this would just publish like KGB propaganda.
And one of the stories in that newspaper was.
was basically saying AIDS was created in the government laboratory.
But it doesn't just say that.