A major section of the Skeptics Society pamphlet I referenced yesterday is headed Top 10 Ways to Test Conspiracy Theories’ – which like the dime store psychology content (on p. 4), ends up as just useless The authors could as well ask readers to use tea leaves. Anyway, let’s look at what’s on offer: 1)Proof of conspiracy supposedly arises from connecting the dots. But if no evidence supports the connections the conspiracy is likely false. In principle, this only works if the evidence is somehow manifest– either through some visual (film, photo) material, mathematical computations - such as Richard Charnin’s computations of JFK assassination witness deaths, or securing once classified CIA files. But in many historical conspiracies either none of these were available at the time the conspiracy was carried out (e.g. the bombing of Cubana Airliners flight CU-455 off the Barbados coast in Oct. 1976), or were only uncovered in the aftermath (e.g. Iran-Contra, Watergate, BCCI) so the investigator must indeed connect dots. brane-space.blogspot/2014/11/top-ten-ways-to-test-conspiracy-claims.html
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:59:30 +0000
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