Journalists and book authors have spent a considerable amount of time and writing to teach us all about how to do authentic research so as not to consider conspiracy theories as facts. Conspiracy theories are usually designed in such a way that they're not only entertaining for the human mind to quickly embrace it but also are quite unintelligent and helps lazy minds to settle an issue without much thinking to do about it. There's more entertainment in them than any rationality.

However, understanding the reverse is perhaps equally, if not more, important. What if certain facts are wrongly understood to be conspiracy theories because they're too cheesy and too unrealistic. Before I delve into that, let me give you a bit of a context.

I grew up in Pakistan watching Hollywood movies. There would be violent scenes of guns being used and serial killers killing innocent people without reason or remorse. I always thought movie makers........

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