What is there to discuss? Should we do a thread about 9/11 conspiracies too?
Well 9/11 conspiracy theories are understandable as a phenomenon due to the political context, the rise of the internet, the Bush government's shadiness, idiocracy, etc.
How is it that the Shakespeare authorship debate became this subject that is routinely taught and analyzed, with seemingly well educated figures coming out in favour of the idea? Is it that very British academic trend of wanting to be interesting rather than right? or is it just boredom?