Mike Irwin
Staff
I'm just going to say one thing in general about conspiracy theories.
Large, overreaching conspiracies are always false.
Until they are proven to be true.
Two that pop immediately to mind...
The Government's testing of nuclear materials, including plutonium, on unsuspecting citizens in the 1950s.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where syphilis suffers, most of them poor and black, were denied treatments that could cure them simply because government doctors wanted to watch the disease progress naturally.
We've talked about conspiracy theories here before, and one thing I cautioned then was don't be so quick to label every outlandish sounding conspiracy theory as being total hokum.
Yes, they probably are, especially when they're "backed up" with "proof" like The Towers were brought down in controlled demolition blasts, not by the airplanes, because the air planes would have caused them to tip over like trees, or it's a conspiracy because no structural steel building has ever collapsed because of fire before.
But we know that our government keeps secrets. And it's always good to ask what might those secrets be hiding.
Large, overreaching conspiracies are always false.
Until they are proven to be true.
Two that pop immediately to mind...
The Government's testing of nuclear materials, including plutonium, on unsuspecting citizens in the 1950s.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where syphilis suffers, most of them poor and black, were denied treatments that could cure them simply because government doctors wanted to watch the disease progress naturally.
We've talked about conspiracy theories here before, and one thing I cautioned then was don't be so quick to label every outlandish sounding conspiracy theory as being total hokum.
Yes, they probably are, especially when they're "backed up" with "proof" like The Towers were brought down in controlled demolition blasts, not by the airplanes, because the air planes would have caused them to tip over like trees, or it's a conspiracy because no structural steel building has ever collapsed because of fire before.
But we know that our government keeps secrets. And it's always good to ask what might those secrets be hiding.