Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick had a few choice words for the public on his way out the door of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick had a few choice words for the public on his way out the door of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
“with absolutely no substantiated proof”.
“Unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence”
It seems like he’s more upset about unsubstantiated conspiracy theories rather than conspiracy theories themselves.
Groups of people have worked together to do things in secret(conspiracies), but if there’s no proof or contradictory evidence of a particular plan, the continued belief in and resources spent on said unsubstantiated conspiracy is frustrating.
Don’t sufficiently substantiated theories cease to be conspiracy theories?
They technically do, but in practice, the word “conspiracy” often has the connotation of being untrue, regardless of being substantiated or not.
People tend to equivocate conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
A conspiracy can’t be true, it’s crazy to believe in, until it’s substantiated, and then it was always true and never crazy to believe in in the first place, so it becomes referred to and remembered as a mundane footnote instead of a conspiracy.