Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Do you think they’re fixed because of gambling? Yes, just gambling. It’s often the referees more than the players — or team coaches or someone who knows about an injury. There’s now betting on how many rebounds did you pull down? Some of it’s even the players. There is this one guy in Toronto — he’s been banned from the NBA. I suspect that’s tip of the iceberg. But those are my only conspiracy theories. I feel impoverished. No, those are more than I have. I don’t know if I’m even wise enough to know what conspiracy theories I believe in because I tend to take everything and be like, “Okay, that makes most sense to me.” I think that the thing with conspiracy theories is there are oftentimes more incentives in place than we know, which goes to the point of JFK and what that could have meant. But yes, I don’t have any direct ones that I’m like, “Yes, that probably happened.”…

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