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2026-01-23

There is no satisfaction in being right about terrible things. That's what many miss about the people who investigate conspiracies: in the end, we would rather be wrong. We would happily be mocked as hysterics and alarmists if it meant everyone could avoid the fate we foresee. When our theories involve the theft of the future, there is no benefit, not even financial, in scaring everyone senseless. This applies to my fellow realists labeled scaremongers: the climate scientists, the epidemiologists, the scholars of authoritarian states. | Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent