japie said...
The problem is with the term "conspiracy theorist". It is used so loosely but in an all encompassing manner, to the extent where anyone who is sceptical of what is thrown at us by the mainstream media is labelled a conspiracy theorist.
No! Not at all.
I am also very doubtful of the accuracy of much of what I see on tv or in the press.
However, I don't then make up some alternate explanation of events and then fail to apply the same tests of validity to the alternate explanation that I apply to the official explanation.
And that's the big difference.
It's a case where the conspiracy nutter chokes on a minnow but can somehow swallow a whole whale without so much as a burp.
When they apply the same critical analysis to their own crackpot theories that they apply to the official explanations I will hold them in much more respect.
Somehow I don't expect that to be any time soon.