Warp wrote:

>   The difference between magicians and conspiracy theorists is, however,
> that magicians don't claim that the tricks are real, while the theorists
> do claim that their arguments are valid and genuine. Well, not all magicians,
> of course. There are always a few "Uri Gellers" who try to claim (sometimes
> rather successfully) that their tricks are the real thing and not tricks at
> all. These phony magicians and conspiracy theorists have a lot in common.

One might argue that the difference between a magician and a conspiracy 
theorists is that few magicians believe that their tricks are real magic 
(regardless of what they tell everybody else). ;-)

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