"What's Wrong With Conspiracy Theories?" Jim Fetzer on the Goldfish Report, April 24, 2021

My latest essay, published on UNZ REVIEW, "What's Wrong with Conspiracy Theories?", which explains that, as theories, they should be evaluated by the same standards (technically, "criteria of adequacy") as apply to scientific theories and that the claim that conspiracy theories are un-testable or un-falsifiable are easily exposed to be false. Using research on JFK and on 9/11 as illustrations, it turns out that "conspiracy theorists" are investigating crimes and that the perps want to shut them down because they may expose governmental complicity! We discuss various ramifications and related issues (such as the fraudulent Biden/Harris administration and the fake CV "pandemic") as well as some "theories" that are just a bit more "far out".