Reply #88: The WCR was quite clear that it couldn't rule out a conspiracy at the time it was issued, [View All]

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but it made clear that after doing 25,000 interviews and tracking down every conspiracy lead they were given (to their natural dead end) that it could find no evidence to support such theories. The WCR did rule out the Mafia, the Cubans and others. That said, the WCR was open to new evidence coming forth to prove a conspiracy. To date, none has.

I've also read a number of JFK books, including Posner's and the grand daddy of them all, Bugliosi's Reclaiming History. Mark Lane's book is probably the most-embarrassing CT book out there, though the contest for the most self-serving is still being waged. Most of the JFK CT theories can be dismissed on the simple grounds that they can't even get the seating positions right for JFK & Connally in the limo. Mess up on such an important and obvious detail and the rest is pure garbage.

A more recent example of CT gone haywire is the Loose Change video of 9/11. Interesting that this video has been revised a number of times to - in the words of its creators - leave out theories that they no longer feel are plausible. Yet, when the first version of the video was released, the CTists had a field day calling critics naive and part of the cover-up when said critics pointed out the stupidities that the creators insisted were facts in the first version of the vid.

You'd think such embarrassments would give CTists pause, but, no. They sally forth without a care on the world, believing whatever they will in contradiction to basic science and common sense.

Also - please excuse for the thread hijacking on my part.