 Originally Posted by krisvds
3/ Would it really matter? The point is that every time a report is published (not just a theory, but a study containing proof that stand the test of critical scrutiny by scientific peers) that points out the mistakes in some of the more outlandish theories it becomes part of the big bad conspiracy and, in itself, proof to the belief that there must be a hidden truth etc ...
Compare it to the thousands of crop circles that were hoaxes and not proof of alien lifeforms and such ... It didn't stop the believers believing because perhaps one of those circles might actually be the real thing. It's a pointless exercise.
Well, that's probably due mainly to how much secrecy is in place surrounding the whole thing. When you have the president himself AND the vice president refuse to testify on it unless they can do so off the record, in private, together, and not under oath, it throws up some red flags. There aren't any scientific studies that can shed any light on something like that.
And if you think that your government can pull off such a well coordinated event like that in the 1st place, it's not much of a stretch at all to think that some independent experts on the topic could have been influenced in some way.
You have to examine all aspects of it. Including the independent experts, their political affiliations, any possible motives they might have to want to debunk the conspiracy and so on. If you aren't willing to scrutinize every aspect of it to the fullest extent then why even question it at all?
Both sides of the coin here have independent experts doing studies that stand the test of scrutiny by scientific peers.
I've debated this subject with many types of people before. And been surprised many times by people that I would've assumed would believe in the conspiracy theory, but didn't. And for varying reasons. Very few of those reasons included evidence to support the idea that the conspiracy is a myth.
Many times the reasons were that the people I was discussing it with weren't prepared to accept the idea that our own government would ever do such a thing. Because admittedly for them, that would make day to day life here more difficult. Others were more hostile toward the idea, and their reason for that had nothing to do with science or facts, but had everything to do with the fact that they supported the Bush admin. They voted for him. So for me to say that the Bush admin orchestrated this attack was viewed as an attack on their personal political belief structure and affiliation. But in their defense, these are people who still think the president actually runs the country, so something like this is way outside of their understanding.
The power structure of the USGOV has changed significantly, and they can't quite grasp it.
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something else to consider.
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