On the subject of conspiracy theories/anti-theories, my dad sent me a 
link to www.junkscience.com, which basically trashes all the 'popular' 
media-hysterics stuff, i.e. globabl warming etc.  Only problem is it 
tries to do so in exactly the same way the mass media presents things.

http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20070419.html for instance:

It debunks statistical evidence by going into pretending to explain how 
statistics work then quoting exactly one number that backs up their 
claim, saying that it's statistically insignificant without providing 
contextual data that *shows* it's statistically insignificant...and so,
proves that DDT is perfectly harmless to humans, after all.  What WERE 
people thinking all these years?

And so on.

Not that the knee-jerk reactions of politicians/corporations to 
environmentalists' complaints to placate them are necessarily the right 
thing to do, if at all, but a knee-jerk reaction to show the knee-jerk 
reaction is wrong doesn't actually show that the original claim is 
itself bogus.

Using different aspects of 'Science', of which presumably the target 
audience doesn't know the details, to posit an argument *against* a 
different analysis of the same data...like Warp said, "It's rather 
depressing not being able to present any factual counter-argumentation 
to such theories and "evidence" simply because you don't know the 
facts."  Which is precisely upon what these arguments depend.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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