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As far as I know, the "logic" is as follows:
Nowadays blaming HAARP means they aren't blaming Exxon. In the past I believe it was just conspiracy fodder.
Two things can be true at the same time:
I mean, just look at The Dimming and tell me that they're all just stupid idiots who spent money and time on making a 2+ hour documentary, modifying planes to collect cloud samples, analyse and compare the results, etc? For what? Getting rich selling merchandise?
Sure, I'm open to all of them being quacks but I'd really like to have some conclusive counter-evidence.
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That’s the basic pattern for most conspiracies anyway. I’m still wondering how the conspiracy theorists expect billionaires will make even more money by cutting the human population to a tiny fraction of its current number. Well, I guess I’m just not smart enough to see the hidden truth or whatever.
Right? Billionaires have an obvious interest in the status quo - that's why getting anything to ever change in ways that mildly inconvenience them is like pulling teeth.
Like others have pointed out in the thread, though: if you're expecting rationality from conspiracy theorists, you've already lost.
If those premises are true it seems to make sense.
This is the sort of thing that with enough data we could determine experimentally whether that’s what’s happening.