Points to a conspiracy video
Discuss: * Background - summary of content - about the video maker - list of conspiracy(ies) shown in this video - full transcript * Sources - of the images and clips inside the video - of the narrative and of quotes
* Section by section discussing each section of the video - its claim, and the source of this claim - claimed proof, and the source of those - discussing the validity of the claim and its proof - countering evidence: external clips, showing the images in context, showing contrary facts etc.
* Automatic creation of "debunking video" showing the video, pausing it and replaying sections, with insertions of annotations, text-to-speech, and relevant external clips.-- pashute, Jul 13 2016 Ideas like this are created to destabilise the integrity of major research programmes, and should be exposed to critical scrutiny.-- xenzag, Jul 13 2016 This is a rational approach to debunking conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately, conspiracy theories are not amenable to rational approaches.
There are two laws regarding conspiracy theories:
Buchanan's First Law of Conspiracy Theories: The more bizarre the theory, the stronger its adherents' belief in it.
Buchanan's Second Law of Conspiracy Theories: Evidence against a conspiracy theory is simply evidence that The Authorities are devoting more resources to hiding the conspiracy. It is therefore evidence for the conspiracy theory.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2016 Buchanan's Third Law of Conspiracy Theories: Your do NOT talk about Buchanan's Second Law of Conspiracy Theories.
Buchanan's Fourth Law of Conspiracy Theories: We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.-- 8th of 7, Jul 13 2016 There is no Fourth Law. Absolutely not. Never has been, no idea how that idea got started.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2016 [+]
Funding for Debunkolab provided by anonymous donors.-- FlyingToaster, Jul 13 2016 [+], even though this hasn't a hope in hell of working.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 13 2016 // anonymous donors.//
Anonymous corporate donors, shirley ?-- 8th of 7, Jul 13 2016 ^ corporations, governments, religious organizations... et cetera.-- FlyingToaster, Jul 13 2016 // that’s what they’d like you to think. Oh wait //
Chanted to the rhythm of "lions and tigers and bears, Oh My!"-- scad mientist, Jul 13 2016 // ^ corporations, governments, religious organizations... et cetera. //
.... Masons, Jesuits, Knights Templar, Majestic 7, Illuminati, the Salvation Army, deep-frozen Nazi scientists from Antarctica recovered by a secret North Korean submarine expedition, thawed out and reanimated to help make behaviour-controlling chemical weapons....
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Oh, sorry, our bad- that last one is actually real.-- 8th of 7, Jul 13 2016 +*[all remarks] enjoyed profoundly. Thank you!!-- pashute, Aug 04 2016 random, halfbakery