Thread: Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
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Old 18-March-2008, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by HypothesisTesting View Post
I know this isn't a popular viewpoint on BAUT, but I ask that you think about it any way. Just pretend for a minute that you hadn't heard some of the looniest: like reptilians or moon hoax, then would my argument seem logical?
Not really. The quality of a claim rests on the evidence supporting it. To accept or reject a claim based on some subset of implausible other claims would be to engage in the Strawman Fallacy. That's sort of antithetical to the desire to call an argument "logical".
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