A conspiracy theory is, a priori, a good thing. Why? Because the - TopicsExpress



          

A conspiracy theory is, a priori, a good thing. Why? Because the world is chock full of conspiracies. What is a conspiracy? It is a secret plan of a group of people. Does any of you really believe that with 16+ intelligence agencies in the USA there are not thousands of conspiracies hatched every day by tens of thousand of professional people just here, in the USA? Dont you know that corporations conspire too? What do you think antitrust laws are all about? Do you know that the criminal code is also full of conspiracy crimes? So here is the deal: if you want to understand what happens behind the smokescreen thrown before you by the corporate media and crooked government officials you HAVE TO spend most of your time looking into conspiracy theories. Put simply - if you reject conspiracy theories you are blind. Period. 2) I dont give a damn credibility or the credibility reaction of many.... I dont deal in credibility. Credibility is an argument of authority which assumes that something coming from A is credible because it comes from A. This is not what I want for me or for others. In the community I want everybody to be critical of everybody and everything and to only judge an argument on its own merits (or lack thereof). If tomorrow X or Y write a good piece I would not hesitate to publish it. Not because I endorse it (I only endorse what I write!), but to foster an intelligent and thought provoking reaction.... In other words, credibility is something attached to an argument, not a person. 3) In order to reject a hypothesis we have to first look into it. Unless we develop an 1984-like automatic rejection without analysis capability, there is no way for you to evaluate a thesis without being exposed to it. A hypothesis is just that - a maybe or what if. If it passes a preliminary stage of acceptance, and if it becomes formalized, it becomes a theory. Then, that theory can be tested, in particular in its ability to predict. Only then can it be proven false...
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:43:34 +0000

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