"There’s been an awful lot of experiments done on what people do when things are hidden from them: they invent extravagant metaphysical theories to account for what they can’t find out any other way. The more disinformation students are fed in these experiments, the more elaborate their metaphysical theories become. And the more like the mentations of clinical lunatics their speculations become. This is an attempt to account for reality when you’re being deliberately kept from seeing parts of it, or are being shown things that aren’t part of it in the guise that they are."