Reply #29: That's not what I [View All]

[billh58]

said, or even implied, but I suspect that you know that.

Questioning the "version of events offered to us by interested officials," is always prudent, and is not much different from questioning a far-fetched version of events as presented by a group of extremists with an ideological agenda.

Some mysteries are exactly that: mysterious, and not immediately explainable, but people attempt to "explain" them anyway. By their very nature, "theories" are subject to initial skepticism and require indisputable proof to be accepted as fact. Most Internet conspiracy theories are very similar to urban legends, in that they start life as plausible speculation, sound reasonable, and grow closer to accepted fact with each telling. At their root, however, most CTs contain very little fact or substance, and a high amount of conjecture.

And then there is the "broken watch" analogy...;-)