Follow-up: why conspiracies don't work

Over the weekend, I wrote a post about the possible release of JFK documents, with a diatribe about the inefficacy of conspiracies.  All it takes is one person, and the conspiracy falls apart.  In particular, I pointed out how silly climate denialism is, based on the absurdity of proposing conspiracies among academics.  We aren't the conspiratorial types.

Since then, I noticed this story, demonstrating my point perfectly.  The New York Times reported that the EPA has pulled their scientists from climate change talks.  This is what it looks like when you try to put pressure on scientists to change their interpretation of the data.  This is what it looks like when you try to put together a conspiracy.  The idiots who think climate change is a conspiracy are motivated by the belief that they can just do the same thing in reverse.  So, they try, and this is what happens.

Do you see what happens, Larry?!

To paraphrase The Dude, I may be an asshole, but I'm not wrong.

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