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Epstein's death reflects our new age of conspiracy theories

Anyone who's watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase "Hard cases make bad law." It's a legal maxim that says really extreme -- i.e., rare or weird -- cases are not only hard to generalize from, they're also a bad foundation for new legislation or policy.

This also happens to be a good rule of thumb in life. Imagine if you judged all people of a certain race, sex or occupation based upon the strangest anecdote you have about

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