This is certainly true of any other kind of theory, why should it be different for conspiracies?
Well, there are large classes of theories where almost all of them are just wrong to the point where we don’t need to bother investigating more of them at all. Thus for example, there are a lot of ideas about sympathetic magic where the priors are so low that we don’t need to check the claims. Similar remarks apply to ideas that require minds to be irreducible ontological entities.
This is certainly true of any other kind of theory, why should it be different for conspiracies?
Well, there are large classes of theories where almost all of them are just wrong to the point where we don’t need to bother investigating more of them at all. Thus for example, there are a lot of ideas about sympathetic magic where the priors are so low that we don’t need to check the claims. Similar remarks apply to ideas that require minds to be irreducible ontological entities.
Fair point. However, most conspiracies, while implausible and tied down with many burdensome details, do not actually violate physics as we know it.