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		<title>By: Bo Jangles</title>
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		<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>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/comment-page-3/#comment-3890</link>
		<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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		<title>By: John Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Katarina , Your Grandfather certainly was a busy guy murdering hundreds of thousands of whole families of Jews .In fact ,YOUR Grandpappy was perhaps the most successful murderer in history Congrats Mate !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Katarina , Your Grandfather certainly was a busy guy murdering hundreds of thousands of whole families of Jews .In fact ,YOUR Grandpappy was perhaps the most successful murderer in history Congrats Mate !</p>
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		<title>By: Katarina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katarina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reading these posts is a lot of fun.  No. 1. My grandmother was married to a German SS officer.  Before she died, she told us the truth about the death camps, and how her husband murdered hundreds of thousands of whole families of Jews.  He committed suicide 10 years after the war ended because he couldn&#039;t live with the guilt.  No. 2.  So freakin&#039; what if YOU think YOU know the truth about 9/11, Kennedy and Bigfoot.  Covert plans, theories &amp; truths have been around for a million years...grow up and get a life because YOU, little person, aren&#039;t going to change ANYTHING. ~~silly humans~~</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reading these posts is a lot of fun.  No. 1. My grandmother was married to a German SS officer.  Before she died, she told us the truth about the death camps, and how her husband murdered hundreds of thousands of whole families of Jews.  He committed suicide 10 years after the war ended because he couldn&#8217;t live with the guilt.  No. 2.  So freakin&#8217; what if YOU think YOU know the truth about 9/11, Kennedy and Bigfoot.  Covert plans, theories &amp; truths have been around for a million years&#8230;grow up and get a life because YOU, little person, aren&#8217;t going to change ANYTHING. ~~silly humans~~</p>
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		<title>By: John Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It takes a pharmaceutical company aprox. 100 million dollars to prove a drug is safe and to get it on the market ., Would it be wise for those companies to spend that money to prove a plant is beneficial that you can grow in your yard for free ? A little common sense surely helps science , it does not hinder it . Michael must believe everything that the government and media tells him to believe . It is not even POSSIBLE SCIENTIFICALLY that 9/11 happened the way we were told it had transpired , Same as the JFK murder ., The only conspiracy theories are what the GOVERNMENT peddles to us along with their CORPORATE OWNED NEWS MEDIA .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It takes a pharmaceutical company aprox. 100 million dollars to prove a drug is safe and to get it on the market ., Would it be wise for those companies to spend that money to prove a plant is beneficial that you can grow in your yard for free ? A little common sense surely helps science , it does not hinder it . Michael must believe everything that the government and media tells him to believe . It is not even POSSIBLE SCIENTIFICALLY that 9/11 happened the way we were told it had transpired , Same as the JFK murder ., The only conspiracy theories are what the GOVERNMENT peddles to us along with their CORPORATE OWNED NEWS MEDIA .</p>
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		<title>By: John Doe</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Doe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I remote viewed it. Everyone who has posted here is either on The Farm or in Ft. Meade. They drew straws, took up sides, and as an intellectual exercise opposed one another vehemently in order to make this debate exciting. 

Of course it&#039;s not really exciting. The truth almost never is. Skepticism doesn&#039;t make an interesting story line in fiction or in conspiracy-theory &quot;reality.&quot; But all you agents sure are entertaining! Keep up the good work!

And I mean it this time</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remote viewed it. Everyone who has posted here is either on The Farm or in Ft. Meade. They drew straws, took up sides, and as an intellectual exercise opposed one another vehemently in order to make this debate exciting. </p>
<p>Of course it&#8217;s not really exciting. The truth almost never is. Skepticism doesn&#8217;t make an interesting story line in fiction or in conspiracy-theory &#8220;reality.&#8221; But all you agents sure are entertaining! Keep up the good work!</p>
<p>And I mean it this time</p>
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		<title>By: allan</title>
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		<dc:creator>allan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your theories assume that the media are free to televise or print any story they wish.  Also, you are assuming that the media have some moral responsibility to tell us what is important to us.
Both are false and if you believe otherwise then you have not got the big picture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your theories assume that the media are free to televise or print any story they wish.  Also, you are assuming that the media have some moral responsibility to tell us what is important to us.<br />
Both are false and if you believe otherwise then you have not got the big picture.</p>
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		<title>By: verne bolton</title>
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		<dc:creator>verne bolton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a bunch of stupid,no brain fucking idiots. All of you truthers need to fasten your mouths to an exhaust pipe and suck deeply. The rest of us that actually have a brain need the food, air, and space your sorry asses are using up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a bunch of stupid,no brain fucking idiots. All of you truthers need to fasten your mouths to an exhaust pipe and suck deeply. The rest of us that actually have a brain need the food, air, and space your sorry asses are using up.</p>
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		<title>By: DudeWheresMyTree?</title>
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		<dc:creator>DudeWheresMyTree?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Suggestion: start with Robert Faurisson’s blog. Look for his original works in French, if you can. They are the best awakening of the mind to the problems of the alleged “Holocaust” I know of.&quot;

Let&#039;s make this clear if you&#039;re going to read Faurisson, bear in mind that he is a convicted Holocaust Denier.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Suggestion: start with Robert Faurisson’s blog. Look for his original works in French, if you can. They are the best awakening of the mind to the problems of the alleged “Holocaust” I know of.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s make this clear if you&#8217;re going to read Faurisson, bear in mind that he is a convicted Holocaust Denier.</p>
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