# Truthers and conspiracy theorists

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthers-and-conspiracy-theorists/633174
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [August 30, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthers-and-conspiracy-theorists/633174 "2012-08-30T18:54:48Z")
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### Author: ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthers-and-conspiracy-theorists/633174/303 "2013-12-19T02:00:45Z")

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> [@psikeyhackr](#):
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> . . . No, guilt by association is good enough to resolve the debate. . . .

Taking an analysis of the patterns of conspiracy belief as “guilt by association” speaks volumes, especially when part of my analysis was over people who have only one idee fixe. You have no association with people who believe large numbers of conspiracy fantasies.

You do, however, seem to have a severe problem taking a step back and talking about conspiracy belief as a concept, rather than dragging the discussion always back to your own single idee fixe.

(You also seem to have some odd idea that no physical analysis of the WTC collapse was ever performed, which is flat-out wrong. A great number of studies have been done. If only a full-scale reproduction of the towers – including the furnishings, workstations, the water in the toilets, and the human beings at their desks? – would satisfy you, you might best be prepared for disappointment.)

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