Conspiracies And Probability

guttentag writes "Sunday's New York Times Magazine is running a feature that looks at the rumored conspiracy that allegedly killed nearly a dozen bioterror and germ warfare researchers during a four month period following the U.S. anthrax scare. "What are the odds," people ask, despite the fact that a "one-in-a-million miracle" will statistically occur 280 times a day in the U.S. These strange things happen all the time, but we hype them because they provide the spice in literature and the comfort of comprehension."

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Re:Conspiracies, nuts, and JFK

[T3kno]

Actually to me that is an argument for religion. Religionists are not the ones that are constantly twisting things too support a half baked theory or moralistic system. If you look at it, the fundamental belief system of christianity has been pretty much the same for the last 2000 years. Science and politics are the ones that has been all over the place.