Around 3:00, they talk about how the “conspiratorial” aspect of the JQ puts people off. Prof. MacDonald says that conspiracy-minded people think that every major event is a conspiracy, including plane crashes. This is not true. Speaking as one of those conspiracy-minded people, I have not heard much about conspiracies involving plane crashes, aside from 9/11 and the deaths of a few politicians. We conspiracy minded folks do base our inquiries on facts. The difference is that we give greater weight to some facts than mainstream-minded folks like Prof. MacDonald (in the context of conspiracies). Mainstreamers dismiss anything that does not jibe with official accounts. They cannot believe that official accounts could be based on lies, told by co-conspirators at various levels of any given conspiracy. We conspiracy-minded folks have become aware of enough glaring inconsistencies in official accounts to realize that there must be conspiracies behind many major events, including many terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

I was a mainstream-minded person (on the subject of conspiracies) until about five years ago. I do not believe that I am not mentally ill. (If I were mentally ill, would I be able to write so many coherent comments like this one?) I don’t accept every conspiracy theory without question. I realize that there is lots of disinformation out there. I say disinformation, not misinformation, because I am convinced that most of the invalid conspiracy theories out there are created by shills and agents, whose purpose is to taint valid conspiracy theories.