by Outcast_Searcher » Thu 14 Jun 2018, 15:35:39
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')When you say you're really worried about chemtrails, don't expect educated people to jump at spending time looking at "evidence" via links.
That is the problem so called educated people become close minded and stubborn about what they know or think they know. If it is "not officially" sanctioned or they cannot directly confirm it, then it must NOT exist or be.
As for the original meaning of conspiracy theory, well that has become irrelevant give that now in politically correct circles, it has assumed a perjorative denotation, to mean a crazy extreme position. How convenient for the powerful entities.
How about the idea that unless a reasonable amount of EVIDENCE can be presented (vs. strong emotional belief backed up by lots of intuition, ranting, etc), that we don't take extreme positions as seriously as say, mainstream positions which ARE backed up by a reasonable amount of actual evidence?
Examples:
1). The popular meme among AGW deniers that AGW is just "liberal propoganda" aimed at making government bigger.
2). 911 truthers -- given all the physical evidence, math, physics, etc. from credible sources.
3). The Kennedy conspiracy -- given that all sorts of scientific experiments, measurements, math, physics, etc. have discredited the ideas like "the magic bullet", etc.
4). The flat earth conspiracy -- that the world really IS flat, despite all the physical evidence. And that any other evidence like photographic evidence, etc. is all another conspiracy that the government (via NASA, etc.) is lying to make the earth seem round to the masses.
5). The US moon landings never occurred in the Apollo mission era; it was all faked conspiracy.
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The examples above just happen to be the ones I'm fairly familiar with off the top, and have taken a look at the evidence (or mythology) on either side.
So really ... is the earth more likely to actually be flat via some complex web of conspiracies and despite all the physical and scientific evidence, or is there a giant conspiracy to call such ideas "crazy" or "extreme" to help make the case against otherwise (ahem) credible conspiracy theoies?
Given the things you tend to believe in, I wouldn't be surprised to see you come out in favor of the conspiracies. Just don't expect people who like evidence and science to be swayed a whole lot.
And like it or not, wanting to see meaningful evidence over time doesn't mean closed minded.
For example, I actually was sort of 50-50 on the Kennedy conspiracy until "Myth Busters" completely decimated the importance of the "magic bullet" on one of their shows with a well-presented scientific experiment.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.