The online journal Episteme has a special issue out on conspiracy theories. Examples include God as a conspiracy theory, the 9/11 WTC "controlled demolition" theory and questions of rationality of those who engage in them.
Late note: This is a subscription journal.
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The title of this post is a famous question (posed, for example, by Joe Polchinski) which is modeled after an even more famous question by Ken Wilson, "What is Quantum Field Theory?".
Gert Kortoff has written a review of Behe's Edge of Evolution. He points out:
Hoisted from the comments, Robin asks:
Bret Underwood, a friend of mine from my time in Madison, WI, saw my post on String Theory, and took issue with my statement that it wasn't testable. I'm still standing behind what I said, but let's address what Bret has to say.
How 'bout mentioning when links are subsciption sites in the future, thanks.
Aren't conspiracy theories an application of the principle behind the "watchmaker" analogy?