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Originally Posted by Robert TG
From the start of the thread... “Belief in conspiracy theories certainly seems to be on the rise, and what little research has been done investigating this question confirms this is so for perhaps the most famous example of all - the claim that a conspiracy lay behind the assassination of JFK in 1963. A survey in 1968 found that about two-thirds of Americans believed the conspiracy theory, while by 1990 that proportion had risen to nine-tenths.”
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Opinion polls are meaningless here. What does the science say? You realize, of course, when writing this that you have to take H.L. Menken's comment into account.
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Originally Posted by Menken
No one ever went broke overestimating the intelligence of the American public
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And then you give us this beauty.
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Jim Garrison wrote…
“The American people have since been bombarded by propaganda pointing insistently to a variety of irrelevant “false sponsors” as supposed instigators of the Kennedy assassination. (False Sponsor is a term used in covert intelligent actions, which describe the individual or organization to be publicly blamed after the action, thus diverting attention away from the intelligence community.) Americans have been so brainwashed by such disinformation, paid for by their own taxes, that many of them today are only able to sign mournfully to one another that they… “Probably never will know the truth”.”
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Oh yeah. Garrison. A real voice for the truth. He wouldn't have known it if it had bitten him on the ankle.
In my opinion you can summarize most conspiracy theories from Pearl Harbor, to Kennedy, to Apollo, to 9-11 with one line...
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Originally Posted by Tweedledee
If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, But as it isn't it ain't. That's logic!
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"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." - William Thompson, 1st Baron Lord Kelvin
"If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" - Tweedledee
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli
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