Do you believe in ANY? Or do we know, through the teevee, paper, and history books, the whole truth about everything?
In Conspiracies, or Conspiracy Theories? I believe that there are conspiracies, that there have been conspiracies in the past and will be in the future. Most of them are over silly power plays and come quickly to the light because people can't keep their mouths shut (Watergate, The Lewinskey Affair, and Enron are all examples.)
I also believe that what most of the CT crowd take as a conspiracy is nothing more than rampant after the fact butt covering by incompetents who want to keep their jobs and so will lie through their teeth, attempting to pass the buck to someone else so as to conceal their part in the systems failure that occurred.
Do I believe in sooper sekret Gubermints run by the Illuminate and a cabal of alien masters who pull off perfectly planned black ops to control the minds of the sheeple about the world, all done with vastly superior technology and followed up by terrorising any expert that might step out of line, except those that do? No. Why not, because there just is no evidence.
Do I believe the CT espoused by people like Jack White, Bart Sibrel, Steven Jones, Dylan Avery and Michael Moore? No, because they have no evidence and wouldn't know what evidence was if they fell over it. They flat out lie, they manipulate the facts more than the best Japanese Origamist, and when all else fails they just make stuff up. They have no education in science and even their common sense arguments generally fall flat as a deflated balloon when a small amount of light is brought to bear. They obfuscate, squirm and tap-dance their way about questions when faced with the facts and never ever answer a straight question, rather going off on rants about perceived holes in the "Official Story" rather then dealing with the canyons in their own.
If, and only if, the CT's (in ANY CT) come up with a consistent and logic storyline that can be examined and tested in the same way as the "Official Story" is, and that story not only passes those tests, but afterwards it is shown that it is MORE LIKELY than the Official Claims, then and only then am I willing to think that it might be credible.
While all that a CT contains is a bunch of uneducated nonsense, mangled facts, half-truths, outright lies, unqualified finger pointing, unsupported pseudo-scientific claims, absurd photo analysis, and political rants, then no, I won't accept it.
