Someone once said that the probability of a secret staying secret is inversely proportional to the square of the number of people who know it.
Which is one big reason why I disregard conspiracy theories, because you just can't keep something that big a secret (the other is the fact that the human brain has a habit of making connections that aren't there)
Never thought of the Holocaust in that context, though... It's a good example of
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Date: 2011-09-11 07:45 pm (UTC)Which is one big reason why I disregard conspiracy theories, because you just can't keep something that big a secret (the other is the fact that the human brain has a habit of making connections that aren't there)
Never thought of the Holocaust in that context, though... It's a good example of