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ocpagu

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4. The only good point in the article...
Wed May 8, 2013, 04:48 PM
May 2013

... is the first comment about it:

"Its always interesting to me to what pains people will go to assert that simply believing what authority figures tell you at face value is sophisticated, whereas being skeptical and speculating about hidden agendas makes one a rube." - Ted Heistman

And...

"History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power" - George Carlin

This modus operandi of ridiculing people who voice support for skepticism and reject blind acceptance to publicized explanations - as if the truth about the things of the world had to be certified by mainstream press and governments to be plausible - and stereotyping the same people with this kind of bullshit is typically authoritarian, Orwellian, anti-scientific - plainly stupid.

Oh... some people seem to forget that several of these "conspiracy theories" (controversies would be the more appropriate term for several of them) have been proven true.

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The article covers some of frogmarch May 2013 #1
"Why are you defending Bush?" n/t zappaman May 2013 #2
ha! And frogmarch May 2013 #3
The only good point in the article... ocpagu May 2013 #4
There are two different things here. ZombieHorde May 2013 #5
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