candid_theist comments on What causes people to believe in conspiracy theories? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: candid_theist 07 May 2011 06:54:27PM 0 points [-]

This can just as well be "X did happen, but the mainstream has been convinced it did not." The theory that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico comes to mind.

Or creationism can be seen as a combination: "Genesis 1-2 (X1) literally happened, but the atheist scientists invented evolution (X2) and tricked people into believing it."