The Deafness Before the Storm: New York Times

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45. Conspiracies

It's important to use your common sense when people talk about conspiracy theories. After all, what credulous fool could possibly believe that a giant energy company could be a hollow shell held up by phony bookkeeping, or that a superpower could invade another country based on intelligence from a handful of self-dealing foreign agents of questionable mental stability, or that banks would collude to provide mortgages to people who couldn't possibly pay them off while law enforcement turned a blind eye, or that a tiny handful of people could simply fabricate financial information vital to the entire world? I mean, c'mon!