Conspiracy theories are like the cream buns of intelligent thinking. We all know we shouldn't but they're just too damn tempting.
They also happen to be one of my many pet peeves. I've posted about this a little before but the Malaysian aircraft mystery/fiasco (take-your-pick) just underlines this for me. Just as evil thrives when good men do nothing, so conspiracy theories thrive in inverse proportion to the amount of verifiable information available. Cut off or starve the information flow as the authorities have done here, and what fills the vacuum- conspiracy theories.
At some point in the future, the plane will be found but until it is, all the wacko ideas in the world come out to play. Yes, in some small measure it's creative but it's also a principle of bad writing at work here- if anything is possible, there's no real jeopardy. Think about it- Superman or Spiderman? A hero who has no real weaknesses (the stuff about Kryptonite comes & goes) or a figure with real and consistent flaws. It may seem a bit of a leap from plane disappearance to Superman but for me, they illustate the same issue, one real one fictional- reasoned debate and imaginative fiction work best when creative logic is applied not the idea that 'anything is possible'. Because it isn't.