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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Among skeptics this phenomenon of conspiracy theories constantly re-surfacing is called a fringe reset.
A fringe reset follows a general pattern. First, the defenders of some inane theory or the other, get completely humiliated and publicly spanked when some prediction or event they were pushing doesn't come true. After this embarrassment, they then skulk away to friendly places on the internet to either argue the same nonsense, or argue slightly different nonsense, or some echo chamber where they can completely control the discussion. After some period of time, they feel confident enough to again publicly argue and push the same thing or some new twist on the theme, pretending the past never happened and hoping everyone else will forget too.
It's sort of like the Winston Churchill quote---We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
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Thank you, learned something new today-Have never heard of "Fringe reset".
know about each word but not togheter.
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