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Some conspiracy theories center on finding anomalies in a narrative. For example, Oswald couldn\\u2019t have shot Kennedy, because the bullet came from the wrong direction. Or: the Egyptians couldn\\u2019t have built the Pyramids, because they required XYZ advanced technology. I like these because they feel straightforwardly about styles of processing evidence

(Remember, I use the word \\u201cevidence\\u201d in a broad sense that includes bad evidence. By saying that some conspiracy theory has \\u201cevidence\\u201d, I\\u2019m not suggesting it\\u2019s justifiable, just that someone somewhere has asserted that they believe it for some particular reason. For example, someone might say they believe in alien abductions because of eyewitnesses who claim to have been abducted; I\\u2019ll be calling the eyewitnesses \\u201cevidence\\u201d without meaning to assert it is any good.)