JohnGageMN wrote:Hoot wrote:It's refreshing to hear folks not automatically ingesting whatever comes along. Believe me, in other forums (south of here), that rhetoric has more traction and frankly, it's embarrassing in this day and age of information availability. Thank you all for restoring my faith in Minnesota sensibility.
It's no sin to be led on by someone who wraps their agenda in kinda believable, well crafted, partial truths. The salvation is getting the opinions of others you trust and who have less of an agenda. It's a free country and everyone is welcome to believe what they choose. When they evangelize it, then I get testy.
Hoot
Try reading some of the conspiracies people are buying into the the News or Politics section on this board.

There are some pretty far-fetched conspiracy theories out there, but when people talk about some things, like people being experimented on by the US government, there is documented proof of such things such as the Tuskegee Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_s ... experiment - but that is by far not the only, the first, or the last one of its' kind perpetuated by our government. Is it a conspiracy theory when there's proof? Chances are if they did it once, they will do it again (and/or currently are doing so right now). That's just one example, but feel free to 100% trust the government if you choose to, but I don't listen to what people SAY, I watch what they DO. A lot pf people SAY things, but their ACTIONS reveal the truth, and if they DO something once, they will DO it again.
The government does many things both known and unknown, many cover-ups, so there is credence given to some theories. Some parts and indeed some entire stories themselves are pretty far out there, but sometimes aspects/parts of them are true, while others are complete fabrications. Disinformation/misinformation is a great weapon and it can cause a lot of confusion, so you need to look at multiple sources, verify what you can, get evidence when you can, etc.. People didn't believe the stories about the camps either until they saw them for themselves in WWII Germany. Some people knew the truth the whole time, but not everyone did. Some probably said it was crazy talk, conspiracy theories, our government would never do that, impossible, etc.
I don't believe every story, theory in part or in whole, but some parts I do, some parts I don't. I don't think that any story is 100% accurate as it stands, but parts of it are. VERY few people know the majority of things, and no one knows everything, but they all know something, and they aren't talking.