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	<title>Comments on: Paranoia Strikes Deep</title>
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		<title>By: BarrysConspiracyWorld</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/comment-page-3/#comment-11224</link>
		<dc:creator>BarrysConspiracyWorld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your claimed stance as a skeptic is not consistent with your fear of Muslims.  You seem like a reasonable person. I find it difficult to believe that you could be so cognitively deficient in your views. You take a typical closed minded stance on UFOs and 9/11 of &quot;Don&#039;t bother me with the evidence.&quot; 

Of course, those who wish to examine the evidence will find an excellent collection of resources at Barry&#039;s Conspiracy World.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your claimed stance as a skeptic is not consistent with your fear of Muslims.  You seem like a reasonable person. I find it difficult to believe that you could be so cognitively deficient in your views. You take a typical closed minded stance on UFOs and 9/11 of &#8220;Don&#8217;t bother me with the evidence.&#8221; </p>
<p>Of course, those who wish to examine the evidence will find an excellent collection of resources at Barry&#8217;s Conspiracy World.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/comment-page-3/#comment-9828</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you look at quotes from our founding fathers I think you will find that they were indeed quite paranoid about all things corruption related. Looking at their words and the advice they gave us (Most of which we have failed to follow) and the constitution they gave us (Most of which we have destroyed) I think it becomes quite clear that our founding fathers understood quite well the risks of high level conspiracies/corruption, and did their best to protect us from and warn us about the possibility. Its too bad this pseudo intellectual doesn&#039;t understand that...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you look at quotes from our founding fathers I think you will find that they were indeed quite paranoid about all things corruption related. Looking at their words and the advice they gave us (Most of which we have failed to follow) and the constitution they gave us (Most of which we have destroyed) I think it becomes quite clear that our founding fathers understood quite well the risks of high level conspiracies/corruption, and did their best to protect us from and warn us about the possibility. Its too bad this pseudo intellectual doesn&#8217;t understand that&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: CanadianDude</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/comment-page-3/#comment-7924</link>
		<dc:creator>CanadianDude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Shermer,

Many of us are reading your skeptically-minded material and understanding what you are saying, and we can follow the trail of skeptical evidence-based thinking to it&#039;s most likely conclusion.

But we don&#039;t bother commenting because this comments section is a sad wasteland.

Keep up the excellent work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Shermer,</p>
<p>Many of us are reading your skeptically-minded material and understanding what you are saying, and we can follow the trail of skeptical evidence-based thinking to it&#8217;s most likely conclusion.</p>
<p>But we don&#8217;t bother commenting because this comments section is a sad wasteland.</p>
<p>Keep up the excellent work!</p>
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		<title>By: Infowa77ior</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/comment-page-3/#comment-6488</link>
		<dc:creator>Infowa77ior</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yawn. It looks like the CIA continues to do a wonderful job with you, Micheal. As the dollar collapses and the ideals of a one world currency continue to form, you continue to ignore everything. As people like Alex Jones continues to expose the truth, people like you continue to defend the Establishment. You are not a libertarian, Micheal. As true patriots lead, you continue to hide.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yawn. It looks like the CIA continues to do a wonderful job with you, Micheal. As the dollar collapses and the ideals of a one world currency continue to form, you continue to ignore everything. As people like Alex Jones continues to expose the truth, people like you continue to defend the Establishment. You are not a libertarian, Micheal. As true patriots lead, you continue to hide.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People want to believe that there is something larger going on, something that explains so much apparently random violence and death. Conspiracies allow an escape from the harsh rigidity of facts. They want to know that something bigger is in charge, and sometimes it’s malevolent, and therefore to stop bad things from happening all we need to do is put the right people in charge of the puppet strings. The world doesn’t work like that. So all you obsessed conspiracy theorists stop spamming me with, as Penn and Teller would say, BULLSHIT!”

Timothy McVeigh was an asset. You are projecting your own ignorance of these subjects onto everyone else, believing that because you do not understand the logic of a particular argument, that it has none and is to be ridiculed in a childish way but it is you who loses out as you continue to talk about things you have no understanding of. If you can hold back on your fevered ego for five seconds, you might learn something for a change instead of being a tool in the destruction of your own nation. 

Believe it or not, I have more faith in honest ex-members of intelligence agencies from the UK, US, France, Italy, Germany to name a few than I have in the Bush Israeli administration, Penn and Teller or you. 

If you go to the FBI website, OBL is listed as one of the most wanted terrorist suspects by the FBI. In his list of crimes, 9-11 is not mentioned. When the question was posed to the FBI as to why OBL is not listed as being responsible for 9-11, their response was

&quot; There is no proof linking OBL with 9-11. &quot;

Sweet dreams.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People want to believe that there is something larger going on, something that explains so much apparently random violence and death. Conspiracies allow an escape from the harsh rigidity of facts. They want to know that something bigger is in charge, and sometimes it’s malevolent, and therefore to stop bad things from happening all we need to do is put the right people in charge of the puppet strings. The world doesn’t work like that. So all you obsessed conspiracy theorists stop spamming me with, as Penn and Teller would say, BULLSHIT!”</p>
<p>Timothy McVeigh was an asset. You are projecting your own ignorance of these subjects onto everyone else, believing that because you do not understand the logic of a particular argument, that it has none and is to be ridiculed in a childish way but it is you who loses out as you continue to talk about things you have no understanding of. If you can hold back on your fevered ego for five seconds, you might learn something for a change instead of being a tool in the destruction of your own nation. </p>
<p>Believe it or not, I have more faith in honest ex-members of intelligence agencies from the UK, US, France, Italy, Germany to name a few than I have in the Bush Israeli administration, Penn and Teller or you. </p>
<p>If you go to the FBI website, OBL is listed as one of the most wanted terrorist suspects by the FBI. In his list of crimes, 9-11 is not mentioned. When the question was posed to the FBI as to why OBL is not listed as being responsible for 9-11, their response was</p>
<p>&#8221; There is no proof linking OBL with 9-11. &#8221;</p>
<p>Sweet dreams.</p>
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		<title>By: Joseph Gregory</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joseph Gregory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mr. Shermer, 

I am a college student, and, as much as I want to keep feelings out of this comment, I must say I am shock to say the least. I am impressed to find one of your articles criticizing people who are skeptical. I agree that there are possibly some forms of skepticism that cross the line, but the U.S. government has knowingly lied about so many things that your argument seems to have no valid foundation, I respectfully believe. It sounds more like an opinion that is based on your personal feelings about the government and the likelihood of something like this happening, and that is not scientific. Skepticism and evidence based arguments are good and should not be repressed. Best wishes - Joseph</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. Shermer, </p>
<p>I am a college student, and, as much as I want to keep feelings out of this comment, I must say I am shock to say the least. I am impressed to find one of your articles criticizing people who are skeptical. I agree that there are possibly some forms of skepticism that cross the line, but the U.S. government has knowingly lied about so many things that your argument seems to have no valid foundation, I respectfully believe. It sounds more like an opinion that is based on your personal feelings about the government and the likelihood of something like this happening, and that is not scientific. Skepticism and evidence based arguments are good and should not be repressed. Best wishes &#8211; Joseph</p>
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		<title>By: Bo Jangles</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/comment-page-3/#comment-3942</link>
		<dc:creator>Bo Jangles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>conspiracy theorists are all wrong; everything is only the was it appears it is- plane and simple</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>conspiracy theorists are all wrong; everything is only the was it appears it is- plane and simple</p>
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		<title>By: John Scrivener</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Scrivener</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For anyone with a sound comprehension of classical mechanics, Newton&#039;s theory of universal gravitation and the laws of motion, the official explanation for the disintegration of the World Trade Center is clearly fallacious. 

The government&#039;s theory defies long-established scientific laws, laws that laid the foundation for the industrial revolution and modern technological developments, from the motor car to sky scrapers and space travel.

The government&#039;s theory requires the suspension of these scientific laws, it requires a belief in magic and miracles.

Belief in the government&#039;s explanation for the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 is no more rational today than belief in creationism, or a flat earth ... it is in the province of faith and fanaticism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For anyone with a sound comprehension of classical mechanics, Newton&#8217;s theory of universal gravitation and the laws of motion, the official explanation for the disintegration of the World Trade Center is clearly fallacious. </p>
<p>The government&#8217;s theory defies long-established scientific laws, laws that laid the foundation for the industrial revolution and modern technological developments, from the motor car to sky scrapers and space travel.</p>
<p>The government&#8217;s theory requires the suspension of these scientific laws, it requires a belief in magic and miracles.</p>
<p>Belief in the government&#8217;s explanation for the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 is no more rational today than belief in creationism, or a flat earth &#8230; it is in the province of faith and fanaticism.</p>
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		<title>By: dan</title>
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		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t help chuckling reading these comments. I&#039;d say 90% of them are the perfect examples of conspiracist psychology. Unless you buy their either unverified, unprovable, or factual inaccurate hypotheses about JFK or 9/11, or you are just a &quot;stupid sheep&quot; or maybe- you&#039;re &quot;one of them&quot;! I sent this e-mail around the office recently:

&quot;&quot;I know that millions and millions of people in this country believe that there was a conspiracy. People want to believe that the world is not that random, that things are not that chaotic, that something larger, bigger was at stake here. Because I think that it&#039;s very difficult for them to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.&quot;
-Robert Dallek

&quot;You can&#039;t handle the truth. Because the truth is, I blew up the Murrah Building, and isn&#039;t it kind of scary that one man could wreak this kind of hell?&quot;
-Timothy McVeigh

People want to believe that there is something larger going on, something that explains so much apparently random violence and death. Conspiracies allow an escape from the harsh rigidity of facts. They want to know that something bigger is in charge, and sometimes it&#039;s malevolent, and therefore to stop bad things from happening all we need to do is put the right people in charge of the puppet strings. The world doesn&#039;t work like that. So all you obsessed conspiracy theorists stop spamming me with, as Penn and Teller would say, BULLSHIT!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t help chuckling reading these comments. I&#8217;d say 90% of them are the perfect examples of conspiracist psychology. Unless you buy their either unverified, unprovable, or factual inaccurate hypotheses about JFK or 9/11, or you are just a &#8220;stupid sheep&#8221; or maybe- you&#8217;re &#8220;one of them&#8221;! I sent this e-mail around the office recently:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8221;I know that millions and millions of people in this country believe that there was a conspiracy. People want to believe that the world is not that random, that things are not that chaotic, that something larger, bigger was at stake here. Because I think that it&#8217;s very difficult for them to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.&#8221;<br />
-Robert Dallek</p>
<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t handle the truth. Because the truth is, I blew up the Murrah Building, and isn&#8217;t it kind of scary that one man could wreak this kind of hell?&#8221;<br />
-Timothy McVeigh</p>
<p>People want to believe that there is something larger going on, something that explains so much apparently random violence and death. Conspiracies allow an escape from the harsh rigidity of facts. They want to know that something bigger is in charge, and sometimes it&#8217;s malevolent, and therefore to stop bad things from happening all we need to do is put the right people in charge of the puppet strings. The world doesn&#8217;t work like that. So all you obsessed conspiracy theorists stop spamming me with, as Penn and Teller would say, BULLSHIT!&#8221;</p>
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