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Government launches anti conspiracy theory department - Jack White - 04-08-2010
White House launches new website to debunk conspiracy theories
Aug 2 2010
THE White House has launched an official bid to shoot down conspiracy theories.
A new website aims to counter claims that the US government have been involved in top-secret plots and sensational cover-ups.
The "Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation" page - posted by the US equivalent of the Foreign Office - insists that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F Kennedy alone, and that the Pentagon was not hit by a cruise missile on 9/11.
The site also says officials have not covered up the existence of aliens and the moon landings were not faked and filmed in Hollywood.
The internet has led to an explosion of outlandish theories and rumours about the US Government.
But the site says: "Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts and evidence is ignored."
Robin Ramsay, an expert in conspiracy theories and editor of political mag Lobster, said: "It will have about as much effect as a site appealing for sexual abstinence amidst the internet's oceans of porn."
Government launches anti conspiracy theory department - Magda Hassan - 04-08-2010
It would be better if the called their official policy on these events their 'Coincidence Theory' department then. As far as I last heard even the US government admitted that there was a 'conspiracy fact' in the JFK assassination being that there was a second gunman as was in the conclusions of the second inquiry. If the US government would just stop engaging in outlandish behaviors then the outlandish theories may stop too. I love Ramsey's response.
Government launches anti conspiracy theory department - Jack White - 04-08-2010
The government has its own outlandish conspiracy theory.
They theorize that Osama Bin Laden conspired with 19 young
Arab terrorists to hijack four airliners on 9-11 and crash them
into buildings.
Now THAT is an absurd conspiracy theory.
Jack
Government launches anti conspiracy theory department - Magda Hassan - 04-08-2010
Exactly! Only the official government approved conspiracy franchise is permitted in the formerly public, now privatized, arena of public opinion. Freelancers not allowed.
Government launches anti conspiracy theory department - Peter Lemkin - 04-08-2010
Jack White Wrote:The government has its own outlandish conspiracy theory.
They theorize that Osama Bin Laden conspired with 19 young
Arab terrorists to hijack four airliners on 9-11 and crash them
into buildings.
Now THAT is an absurd conspiracy theory.
Jack
...and not supported by what facts we have now....and for some 'strange' reason the officials ain't releasing the others they have..... It is far a away more absurd and a 'stretch' than the 'Oswald did it' claims trotted out earlier.
tickyman: Both, however, fall apart completely and utterly, when investigated with an open eye, and mind free from accepting the propaganda smokescreen and the usual American mythology.