ravi wrote: > > > At around 13/6/06 1:20 pm, Michael Perelman wrote: > > The flag was made out of tinfoil and shaped to make it look like it > > was waving. Thus spake NASA. > > > > See, isn't that a lot more convincing and useful as an answer, than > saying "Bah humbug, conspiracy theory"? ;-)
No! As Doug and I have both argued, you cannot rationally debate conspiracists. Disprove one point and they invent another. It is a serious waste of time. My posts are not intended to disprove any given conspiracy theory but to show their political uselessness even when true. I address my posts to those who already reject the conspiracy theory under discussion. I assume that. What I want to discuss is the political importance (negative importance) of conspiracy theories, and it is a digression to bother to pile up more evidence that a particular bit of nonsense is nonsense. Carrol
