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Good news for "truthers": Study shows conspiracies are "prone to unravelling"
(Now, as you might expect, some shills are claiming this study is bad news for "truthers" since it implies that a 9/11 conspiracy should have already unraveled, but they underestimate how long "truthers" are willing to wait.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35411684
Maths study shows conspiracies 'prone to unravelling'
It's difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps, scientists say, because sooner or later, one of the conspirators will blow its cover.
A study has examined how long alleged conspiracies could "survive" before being revealed - deliberately or unwittingly - to the public at large.
Dr David Grimes, from Oxford University, devised an equation to express this, and then applied it to four famous collusions.
The equation developed by Dr Grimes, a post-doctoral physicist at Oxford, relied upon three factors: the number of conspirators involved, the amount of time that has passed, and the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing.
It's difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps, scientists say, because sooner or later, one of the conspirators will blow its cover.
A study has examined how long alleged conspiracies could "survive" before being revealed - deliberately or unwittingly - to the public at large.
Dr David Grimes, from Oxford University, devised an equation to express this, and then applied it to four famous collusions.
The equation developed by Dr Grimes, a post-doctoral physicist at Oxford, relied upon three factors: the number of conspirators involved, the amount of time that has passed, and the intrinsic probability of a conspiracy failing.
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Congratulations! 
Like human behavior is really predictable by using mathematical equations! That's a fucking hoot there! Utter fucking nonsense and you fall for it!? 
Beginning at 23 minutes in...
You ass/u/me that all conspiracies have been exposed. Yet if they have not been exposed then you wouldn't know about them.
Tune in here for an explanation of just how ignorant such nonsense is.