"Some conspiracy theories create serious risks. They do not merely undermine democratic debate; in extreme cases, they create or fuel violence. If government can dispel such theories, it should do so. One problem is that its efforts might be counterproductive, because efforts to rebut conspiracy theories also legitimate them. We have suggested, however, that government can minimize this effect by rebutting more rather than fewer theories, by enlisting independent groups to supply rebuttals, and by cognitive infiltration designed to break up the crippled epistemology of conspiracy minded groups and informationally isolated social networks.
Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action."
Cass R. Sunstein --head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in his paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories”
It’s pretty damn obvious the Federal Government’s version isn’t all there. I know that Bush wanted it to happen. Whether he pulled a McKinley/LBJ or a Polk/Lincoln/Wilson/FDR, I don’t know. There isn’t any evidence that the Federal Government didn’t want it to happen.
That doesn’t mean anyone who falls or advocates for the no plane theory is a government plant. It just means some of them might be, assuming there was a conspiracy. He’s essentially calling onebornfree a government plant. I’m calling that absurd.
Someone please read this official report from popular mechanics and explain to me how the hell everyone knew WT7 was coming down minutes before it did.
Judging from the vast historial experience of steel buildings collapsing symmetrically due to fires alone, they we’re absolutely certain it was coming down. /sarcasm
I don’t get it. Assuming ,for the sake of argument that you are a “real truther” , posting “real truth”, how could someone like myself, an “un-truther” [ or “disinformation plant”] posting “un truths” and “disinformation” , as far as you are concerned, possibly make the " truth" look bad?
The truth is the truth, and needs no defense, not even from you, surely?
Edit: I still stand by what I said in this thread; that trying to prove conspiracies isn’t a great use of time and energy. It’s just that the former Alex Jones-listening conspiracy nut in me gets annoyed when someone says there’s “no evidence.”