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Re: large-scale conspiracies debunked by math equation

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Here's a link from this year, with a theory I don't quite believe re: conspiracies. It claims just a relatively low number of people (under 3000) involved would inevitably lead to the conspiracy being revealed (by 5 years time). One notable estimate is that 400,000+ would need to be involved if [manmade global] climate change were a deliberate hoax (I'd say maybe it is a hoax, but junk science also could be a possible explanation):

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-equatio...ly-reveal.html


Why am I skeptical of the theory in the link? The number of perpetrators of the Holocaust are estimated as 200,000+ (not clear to me if the estimate includes, say, train crew & government clerks, for example):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Edit: Similarly, note that 100,000+ people were involved in the Manhattan Project, which stayed secret (as far as the public was concerned, at least) for quite a number of years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhat...ject#Personnel


A link to a thread re: Conspiracy theory:

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...spiracy-theory

A link to a thread re: Media bias:

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...-re-Media-bias

A link to a thread re: Confidence tricks:

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...nfidence-trick

A link to a poll-thread re: climate change:

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...global-warming

A link re: a hypothetical political platform of mine (ultimately of more academic interest to me than my religious beliefs):

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/en...tical-platform

A link re: my religious beliefs (& experiences):

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/en...s-experiences)

A link re: my ideas on humanity's future (largely without reference to religion):

http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/en...m-links-added)

Updated 12-16-2019 at 01:47 AM by Kevin Pacey

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