I have written before on these pages that the chief problem with conspiracy theories is that they are unfalsifiable. That is to say that if you are somebody who believes, for example, that Jeffrey Epstein was an agent of a foreign intelligence agency (by which everybody who believes this means: Mossad) who was blackmailing powerful American businesspeople and politicians by enticing them into having sex with underage girls, then there is no piece of evidence that could ever be produced that would make you reconsider.
That’s what the conspiracy part of a conspiracy theory is. Believing in a conspiracy theory means that you believe some event happened and a conspiracy is in place to cover it up or hide the evidence or falsify the evidence in order to make it appear as if the event did not happen. Documents that tend to show that the events did not take place are therefore simply more evidence of the conspiracy.
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