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Meanwhile, everyone else spins their wheels trying to debunk the theories, as if more information actually makes a difference. To try to stem the rising tide of kids coming down with measles because their parents are scared of the autism boogeyman, science has been forced to pump money into researching this issue again and again and again, coming out with study after study that shows no link. That's money that could have been used to research cancer cures of for developing better vaccines or even a serum to inject directly into Jenny McCarthy's brain to kill the stupid directly. But instead it's funding studies to debunk that same old autism/vaccine trope that's already been debunked. And it's all pointless, because to conspiracy theorists all of that new "evidence" is just further proof that The Man is working against them. "If there's nothing to it, why are scientists studying it so much?"

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Meanwhile, as reports on climate change and the increasingly terrifying effects keep piling up, we're still trying (and failing) to convince people that it's a real thing that humans caused. Hell, even the president had to actually take time out of running the country to show his birth certificate. All because of this weird flaw in the human mind that makes us gravitate toward the most improbable version of events, and then congratulate ourselves for having the "courage" to stand up against those damned "experts" telling us we're wrong.

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Up in their ivory towers with their accredited degrees and evidence-based, verifiable conclusions.

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If you can figure out how to fix that, well, congratulations on having saved the world.

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Related Reading: Curious about where all these horrific conspiracies got their start? Read this article and you'll learn where the Obama's birth certificate B.S. first kicked off. Some conspiracies are terrifyingly real, like the fascist business owner coup that tried to oust FDR. But most conspiracy theories, even the venerable JFK assassination, are shockingly easy to debunk.