Summary: In episode 017 of the Critical Thinker Podcast we continue our series on critical thinking about CONSPIRACIES. In the previous episode I introduced a view that I called "default skepticism" about conspiracy theories, which in a nutshell says that the grander the conspiracy, the less likely it is to be true. In this episode we look more closely at some of the main arguments that skeptics give for this position. What is it about conspiracy hypotheses that makes them implausible?
