You come here obviously in search of the truth, yet when it is handed to you on a plate you don't listen.
For Christ's Sake... how do you hand someone the truth without a shred of evidence? How many times have I asked for evidence....only to be greeted with, "We don't have to prove anything... the burden of proof is on you."
PLEASE, hand me the truth... I'm 8383737 begging you. I've been begging all of you. For the love of God, show me the TRUTH! NIST IS NOT the truth. You people's absent-minded appeal to authority is deplorable. NIST doesn't even discuss the collapses... so how do you expect to get any evidence from them?
"It is one method of obtaining
propositional knowledge, but a
fallacy in regard to logic, because the validity of a claim does not follow from the credibility of the source.
The corresponding reverse case would be an ad hominem attack: to imply that the claim is false because the asserter is objectionable."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority
You people adhere to both of these techniques... it doesn't matter if a Truther makes a great point... before you can determine the value and/or significance of it... you need to know their qualifications i.e. Schooling, Degree etc. This belief in the infallibility of the system is part of a conditioning that is designed to thwart any and all acts of fair and balanced judgment and/or decision making.
It's like this quote from The Little Prince:
"If you tell grown-ups, "I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof...," they won't be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand dollars." Then they exclaim, "What a pretty house!"
You have all become (co-dependent) slaves to this machine... and that's why you feel threatened when someone ridicules and/or attacks the USG. You view their (USG) loss as your loss. But, sadly... the only thing you've really lost is the magic of youth i.e. the un
adulterated optimism and exuberance about the world and your place in it.
You have all become exactly what the system intended you to be. Self-loving, cynics - who think they know everything. Which translates into fat, lazy, mindless skeptics.