A despised category

[supergee]

Sturgeon’s approximation applies to conspiracy theories. Finding the other 10% is hard but necessary.

Comments

[calimac]

And I once wrote a post on how to tell the difference.

[supergee]

Excellent!

[violsva]

Though as my dad pointed out in a different category, there's no reason to assume that 90% of the remainder isn't also crap.

[voidampersand]

If 90% of the remaining 1% also is crap, and so on, the curve asymptotically approaches 100% crap. But we know that not everything is crap.

[supergee]

Good point

[sturgeonslawyer]

Isn't it interesting, though, that the people most susceptible to subscribe to fake conspiracy theories (like Pizzagate and the crap about the WTC) are the very same people who are most likely to be taken in by real conspiracies (like the New American Century gang)?