>> One might argue that the difference between a magician and a conspiracy
>> theorists is that few magicians believe that their tricks are real magic
>> (regardless of what they tell everybody else). ;-)
> 
> I often get the feeling that the book-writing and DVD-selling subset of 
> conspiracy theorists /do/ know that they're selling crap.

Sure. You're probably right about that. But the poor saps who believe 
this stuff and parrot it to everybody they meet? Well, some of them know 
it's BS, but I get the feeling some of them genuinely believe it...

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