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Public: Education: Conspiracy Theory
Debunkolab   (+4)  [vote for, against]
Collaborate to debunk conspiracy theories

Points to a conspiracy video

Discuss:
* Background
- summary of content
- about the video maker
- list of conspiracy(ies) shown in this video
- full transcript

* Sources
- of the images and clips inside the video
- of the narrative and of quotes

* Section by section
discussing each section of the video
- its claim, and the source of this claim
- claimed proof, and the source of those
- discussing the validity of the claim and its proof
- countering evidence: external clips, showing the images in context, showing contrary facts etc.

* Automatic creation of "debunking video"
showing the video, pausing it and replaying sections, with insertions of annotations, text-to-speech, and relevant external clips.
-- pashute, Jul 13 2016

Ideas like this are created to destabilise the integrity of major research programmes, and should be exposed to critical scrutiny.
-- xenzag, Jul 13 2016


This is a rational approach to debunking conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately, conspiracy theories are not amenable to rational approaches.

There are two laws regarding conspiracy theories:

Buchanan's First Law of Conspiracy Theories: The more bizarre the theory, the stronger its adherents' belief in it.

Buchanan's Second Law of Conspiracy Theories: Evidence against a conspiracy theory is simply evidence that The Authorities are devoting more resources to hiding the conspiracy. It is therefore evidence for the conspiracy theory.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2016


Buchanan's Third Law of Conspiracy Theories: Your do NOT talk about Buchanan's Second Law of Conspiracy Theories.

Buchanan's Fourth Law of Conspiracy Theories: We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 13 2016


There is no Fourth Law. Absolutely not. Never has been, no idea how that idea got started.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2016


[+]

Funding for Debunkolab provided by anonymous donors.
-- FlyingToaster, Jul 13 2016


[+], even though this hasn't a hope in hell of working.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2016


// anonymous donors.//

Anonymous corporate donors, shirley ?
-- 8th of 7, Jul 13 2016


^ corporations, governments, religious organizations... et cetera.
-- FlyingToaster, Jul 13 2016


// that’s what they’d like you to think. Oh wait //

Chanted to the rhythm of "lions and tigers and bears, Oh My!"
-- scad mientist, Jul 13 2016


// ^ corporations, governments, religious organizations... et cetera. //

.... Masons, Jesuits, Knights Templar, Majestic 7, Illuminati, the Salvation Army, deep-frozen Nazi scientists from Antarctica recovered by a secret North Korean submarine expedition, thawed out and reanimated to help make behaviour-controlling chemical weapons....

<flips back through notes>

Oh, sorry, our bad- that last one is actually real.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 13 2016


+*[all remarks] enjoyed profoundly. Thank you!!
-- pashute, Aug 04 2016



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