04-08-2010, 03:12 AM
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."
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."