Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
6 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
“Maybe the definition has gray areas, but there’re plenty of cases where you can point to it and say, “Yes, that would be a conspiracy theory.” I would say I believe in a very small number of them.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 6 Aug 2025
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…Maybe you have to define conspiracy theory for me. Well, if you think a group of people in the US government, say the CIA, plotted to kill Kennedy, that would be a conspiracy theory. If you think Jeffrey Epstein did not really commit suicide, that would be a conspiracy theory. If you think there are aliens hidden at Roswell, that would be a conspiracy theory. Maybe the definition has gray areas, but there’re plenty of cases where you can point to it and say, “Yes, that would be a conspiracy theory.” I would say I believe in a very small number of them. How many do you think you believe in? Tell me which ones you believe in.…
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