Originally Posted by drgoodtrips

The most ironic thing about conspiracy theories is that they generally produce no actual, viable theories of events based on any sort of fact. Almost invariably, everyone says "well I just can't accept X and Y about what I've been told. In fact, too many people have too many questions so I believe {insert absurd violation of Ockham's Razor here}."

That is to say, coming up with conspiracy theories is simple. Just find a few questionable details, make up whatever preposterous story you want, and claim hysterically that it must be true and that anyone who doesn't see it has been brainwashed. Ta-da!