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Katherine K. Young states "( t ) he fact remains, however, that not all conspiracies are imagined by paranoids.

Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.