I believe it is contingent upon them to attack back.

How can anyone be so completely arrogant to just dismiss the whole of knowledge beyond just what the elites tell us? Since when are elites known to be charitable and honest and kind?

If anything, there are likely tons of conspiracies that remain unknown, MANY OF THEM FOREVER.

YOU WANT THE REAL TRUTH? The more powerful a person or group is, the more likely that entity is to be corrupt and, thus, nurturing a set of active conspiracies.

The sheer stupidity of the leftist intellectuals just boggles the mind. They sincerely believe they know everything there is to know. The gullibility would be cute, but I believe governments and media ENCOURAGE this sort of gutter writing.

Basically by writing this attack drivel, this clown is only CONFIRMING what people already suspect about elites.

... there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

... they'll welcome us with open arms, throw rose petals in our path

... democracy will sweep the middle east

... the surge is working

... the bailout is for main street, not wall street

you know, one man's BS is another man's dogma...

It's easy to bash what you consider to be irrational.

"YOU WANT THE REAL TRUTH? The more powerful a person or group is, the more likely that entity is to be corrupt and, thus, nurturing a set of active conspiracies."

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Is that your only metric for sorting what is so from what is not?

If not, would you care to share them with us?

Thanks!

"YOU WANT THE REAL TRUTH? The more powerful a person or group is, the more likely that entity is to be corrupt and, thus, nurturing a set of active conspiracies."

Geez, then a really powerful guy like you is sure to be among the corrupt, huh?

> Chinese explorers landed on American shores in 1421.

Pale ink: Two ancient records of Chinese exploration in America

ISBN 1437530818

This book along with the physical evidence of square stone Chinese anchors found between California and Catalina Island make me wonder.

There is always more to the picture than meets the eye.

I dove eagerly into this article ready to giggle at all the nut-jobs out there and discover some new conspiracy I'd never come across. Unfortunately, Mr. Bayard apparently has the same desire for evidence as do many of the groups cited--that is, no desire.

My wife is a licensed craniosacral therapist, and while I certainly "get" that people have a hard time understanding the process, there is a large body of evidence of craniosacral's efficacy.

As a patient in the midst of treatment it does feel as if "nothing" is being done, but having had the treatment I can vouch for its therapeutic effects. That said, it could just as easily have been psychological suggestion seeing as how from my perspective as patient "nothing" was happening. However, during her schooling, my wife taught me how to feel and manipulate the rhythm of the nervous system. It's actually there. One can feel it. It's measurable. It's teachable.

In the same way that acupuncture took decades to be widely accepted despite study after study that showed its efficacy, craniosacral therapy is currently battling its own war of disbelief with the western medical establishment. That hardly makes it a conspircay--unless of course you're referring to the medical establishment's conspiracy against alternative medicine!

I think this article lumps too many subjects under the umbrella of conspiracy theory and confuses suspicion with superstition.

A lot of the belief in government conspiracy theory comes from the conspiracies of the past that have been revealed. It is common knowledge that our and other governments did many horrendous human research experiments that weren't exposed for years, involving syphilis, LSD, radiation, among other things. If the government in the 50s and 60s was willing to experiment with these in secret without consent, why wouldn't people believe that the government in the 80s didn't experiment with AIDs or crack? I'm not saying they did, but seeing where the suspicion originated is not hard.

Take AIDS for example. Even if you assume, as I do, that the government did not have a hand in its origins, the Reagan administration's ignoring it for years certainly contributed to the horrible toll it took on various minority populations.

So to lump questioning the government in with believing Jesus rode a Dinosaur around is a little disingenuous.

You want irrational, just look at what congress has been doing. The Senate sellout bill includes an end to excise taxes on archery arrows with shafts greater than 5/16 inches. Don't we need that excise tax?

You want real irrationality, just look at the Bush administration. Wowsers. Irrationality is administration policy, written in stone.

Scientology and Elvis cults prove that people will believe anything. Try brainstorming something bizarre. Chances are Rick Ross is tracking a cult which believes in it - and is loading up on high-powered weapons and ammo besides.

Stupidity is not a survival characteristic. And there are many more ways of being stupid than there are ways of being smart. That's more than just a problem. That could end up being the undoing of civilization.

Wonko the Sane would understand. Everybody understands Wonko the Sane.

Rinse. Repeat ...

The UFO phenomenon is almost always subject to snarking ridicule in the mainstream. The Belgian flap in the 90s, confirmed by the government (not the US)? The thoughtful writings of Allen Hynek, first brought in by the government to debunk the phenomenon, then coming around to thinking there was something to it. Who knows what it is, but it certainly exists.

Ask anybody.

Most people seem unaware that the reason why there is so much irrationality in the world is because it was destroyed at one point, when everybody was distracted and almost nobody was paying close attention, and immediately replaced with an exact duplicate. Exact, except for certain unimportant inconsistencies, which somehow seem to have had babies and multiplied expotentially and now threaten reality itself. Rambeau was right: magic is loose in the world, and anything is possible.

Here is there, and high is low.
All may seem undone.
What is true, no two men know.
What is gone is gone.

Seriously, now. Every door ought to have a sign over it that says "Exit to Wambano", just to give fair warning.

Who you lookin' at, coppertop?