It’s used exactly the same way “conspiracy theory” is used to shut down investigations or discussion into leftist bad acts.
Confirmation bias is conspiracy theory.
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That’s the way I meant to phrase it. Using a new spellchecker gizmo and it changed it to “... a conspiracy...”. Well, honestly, I changed it because I thought I’d spelled conspiracy wrong and didn’t pay attention to the change made.
FYI if you followed me on Fakebook, I have deleted my acct there.
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