Why I Hate the Term Conspiracy Theory
I came in to tell you that I know a lot of people I'd call conspiracy theorists, and then I read this and you've proved a good point! I think I use the term less with people who believe alternate ideas on historical events and more with things people believe that are just totally inaccurate so I guess I'm not even using the word properly.
The most common bizarre thing I've come across lately is how many people believe a story about cloned meat. I guess people believe that beef cattle and chickens are cloned to save money. Actually I was pretty drunk the first time someone explained this to me, and I was blown away. Sort of like...WAIT. WAIT. WAT? So I actually had the guts to turn around and explain in complete detail how cloning is nothing like it is in science fiction, and how it actually works, thus showing him how cloning would save neither time nor money in the meat industry, and would really be a pointless thing for them to do, and then I provided lots of other reasons why he wouldn't want to eat meat (that weren't totally inaccurate >.>) to make him happy. It's come up so many times now though, that I've just given up. "You should only buy organic chicken," advises random fellow shopper in the store, "that chicken you've got there was probably cloned." I looked at it for a moment, and then replied "Wow, that explains why this is so pricey!" ...Yup!
Nice article :D
Ember, Nov 24, 2012