Conspiracy discourse substitutes suspension of disbelief for evidence.

Evidence

One of the consequences of this process, according to Corn, was that the ‘Sino-Islamic connection has been largely ignored by European elites too busy indulging in anti-American posturing’. Corn offered no evidence to prove any of these assertions but, in the parallel intellectual universe of Eurabia, the suspension of disbelief makes anything possible and this ‘Sino-Islamic connection’ may well herald a new chapter in Eurabian discourse with overtones of the nineteenth century ‘Yellow Peril’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 86

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the epistemics of other conspiracy milieus where unfalsifiable claims circulate as fact.