Science1 min ago
Conspiracy theories???
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I guess it is down to the fact that I (and hopefully a lot of other people) do not believe
- Politicians (Bad day to bury news etc)
- Newspapers (from Hitler Diaries to who sha*ged who)
- Senior Policemen (Sir Ian Blair and the cover up on the shooting)
Personally, I think it shows signs of intelligence to question stories. Not everything is 'cearly always correct' and when you start to realise the amount of rubbish we are fed, all it does is increase the likelihood of more bizzare stories.
Many theories seem quite ridiculous, but there are a few others. As Hitler said (haven't got the book in front of me so can't vouch for the wording) "Aren't we fortunate that the people believe what we tell them?"
I think the term conspiracy theory has turned out to be a convenient way to shout down anyone who dares to question the official version of events.
OK well we've had some interesting answers, just a couple of points of my own:
- Yes jno sometimes the complex answer is the the right one but usually it isn't.
- Yes vic a natural distrust of politicians, newspapers etc does automatically make people doubt what they are told or even there own evidence
- Logman yes, I hope we all do that.
What I meant really was that often there is almost a determination to find a fantastical explanation for something rather than accepting overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The moon landings are a good example of that, the conspiracy theorists invent ever more bizzare explanations as their assertions are routinely shot down, rather than accept they are wrong. I suppose they sell their books and DVD's so perhaps that's why they do it. I wasn't for a minute saying we should never question what we are told but to be very careful buying into some of the incredible assertions of the conspiracy theorists that are usually easily explainable. I admit there is more to a lot of stories than meets the eye and there certainly is milage in a lot of occurences that are, shall we say supicious but please can we get away from these increasing mad ideas about things like Diana's death or the twin towers.
You get the right wing ones who mostly are just away with the fairies or the lefty ones who have all got degrees in naivety and PHDs in stating the blinking obvious.
Anyway they are the backbone of the internet and poor old Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux would be out of a job without em eh!