Alternative Explanations Quotes

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.

One of the great things about conspiracy theories is that they explain everything.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and it is my job, my responsibility, as an astronomer to remind people that alien hypotheses should always be a last resort.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

You don’t have to be a paranoid to question the official explanation of things, although it helps …. There will always be more dots to connect.

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

One of the main ways in which I get attacked is by being called a conspiracy theorist by the right and the other main attack is actually from the conspiracy theorists who are really pissed at me for not admitting that 9/11 was an inside job.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."