Episode 6.44: Why conspiracies may not be what they seem.

Once we are alerted to the possibility that the patterns, laws and trends we observe in the world may arise spontaneously, we can be more circumspect about attributing things to conspiracies. They may just arise as the spurious patterns that are inevitable in any large samples. Ramsey Theory again. But so may the successes we observe be attributable to serendipity rather than talent, skill or anything that makes their authors worthy of praise.