E-prime helps me through a lot of mess. The fallacy of "is-ness"! How claiming something* is* presupposes the thing to be stable and unchanging and only one thing, unconnected and that your view of it "is" absolute and unaffected by your own nervous system. Anyways...this is all sort of off-topic as I think others have answered better than I have. At least, they seem like good sources of information from the upvote count, that's important right? Ha ha, just kidding there! Just kiddin.

But yeah, this sub should absolutely adore Robert Anton Wilson! You do,ndont you? His specialty was 'conspiracy' from a philosophic angle. I'm still studying him but please do yourself a favor and read Cosmic Trigger triology or or Quantum Psychology or even just his Wikipedia entry!

That out of the way, yes, as others have said, who, what, where, when...with very little why! Is usually the opposite way around. Whole news articles concerned with why someone did this thing on this day over there.

From there, as others have mentioned, verification by independent parties. Etc.

Thing is, as ol R.A.W. points out, the entire thing could be an elaborate conspiracy!