Fred Maske It is increasingly clear that right-wingers (and conspiracy thinkers routinely benefit right-wing politics) make two inter-related mistakes.
One of these mistakes is their assumption/presumption that the ability to construct a contrarian argument somehow "proves" the contrarian argument.
The other is that locating "an exception to a rule" is good reason to establish "a new rule."
There are always exceptions.
There are always "outliers."
It's how the world works.
To focus disproportionately on outliers is perhaps the most seductive -- and the most misleading -- form of "confirmation bias."
Just get DuckDuckGo's incestuous echo chamber to start chattering about "an outlier" and people of conspiratorial orientation are immediately "confirmed" in their statistically anomalous belief, which, in turn, requires blanket ignorance of the overwhelming preponderance of data that falls "within normal limits" of the Bell Curve.
This epistemological shoddiness is not unlike attendees at a Billy Graham Revival answering the call to "come forward and proclaim Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior."
In the echo chamber of the "revival tent," EVERYTHING confirms the essential absurdity that salvation is attributable to a "one time recitation" of a magical formula. Not surprisingly, it is these same "conserative" "Christians" who elected Trump and -- to your secret delight, even if you don't acknowledge that delight to yourself -- are doing their damndest to re-elect him again.
Here is a question I suspect you won't answer... but hope springs eternal.
Name one conspiracy theory (over the entire course of human history) whose revelation changed the course of history.
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