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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

A Useful heuristic for refuting conspiracy is the scope of logistics.

It's one thing for a single organization to lie about its internal affairs with none of its personnel blowing the whistle, but as a conspiracy grows it takes more organizations and individual personnel keeping mum to keep the secret from being widely known.

Flat earth would take the US government and all universities working in lock step. The globalist agenda takes pretty much every world government and all academia.

In contrast, MK Ultra was essentially done with only members of the CIA in the know, and it was still known about by many before it was declassified.