Invisible wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   It's not a debunking article per se, but more of an opinion of why the
>> conspiracy theorists are nuts. Especially the second page makes good 
>> points
>> about why keeping a huge conspiracy like that is basically impossible: 
>> There
>> simply are way too many people involved and too many witnesses who could
>> blow up the whole thing with simple evidence (eg. by showing a 
>> paycheck by
>> the government to keep them quiet).
>>
>>   The conspiracy theorists claim that all the people involved, who would
>> could blow up the whole conspiracy, were paid by the government to keep
>> quiet. As the article aptly puts it, how much money would *you* take in
>> order to keep quiet about the murder of your family, friends or 
>> co-workers?
> 
> More interestingly, it explains *why* people want to believe such 
> ludicrous claims: for the personal glory.
Well, its not just that. I don't have a link, but someone pointed out 
that "most" conspiracy theories all have a common thread of ideas. In 
essence, if you fall for one, you are more open to falling for the next, 
and since that has thread into others, you can fall for it easier, and 
so on. Once you start accepting certain patterns as feasible, you start 
finding that all conspiracies have similar patterns. For believers, this 
reinforces the patterns, for skeptics, it just makes them wonder who the 
frak people can believe the BS, including, in some cases, 3-4 different 
conspiracies that can't logically be happening at the same time, run by 
the same people, without undermining all of them in the process.

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