The birth of conspiracy.
No, the birth of a conspiracy theory -- people applying their inexperienced personal interpretations to things, disregarding the state of the art, and then insisting that those interpretations must be the only correct ones because they appeal to intuition.
Science was invented prcisely because common sense doesn't succeed very often at explaining the whys and wherefores of the natural world. The scientific method is a systematic way of eliminating what you think you know in favor of what you can truly observe with as little interference as possible from unconscious guesswork.
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