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Originally Posted by goldorak
You can confirm a conspiracy but never the contrary. So whatever proof you may claim, the other part will just ignore it. The best way to treat these people is just ignore them. No amount of proof, etc.. will ever convince them of the contrary.
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I used to attend regular meetings of the Utah Historical Society. We had one of these conspiracy nuts who tried to sell all of them - UFOs, Moon Landing, Kennedy, Pearl Harbor - you name it, he believed it.
One day I asked him if he was familiar with the conspiracy to kill Lincoln. "There was a conspiracy to kill Lincoln?" So I told him about the plotting and the planning and the guy who was supposed to kill vice-president Andrew Johnson but chickened out, and the guy who was supposed to kill Secretary of State Seward but was tackled by Seward's son, and how they hanged three conspirators plus Mary Surrat, who owned the boarding house where they all stayed (including John Wilkes Booth). By this time his eyes had glazed over.
The simple truth is that these people are convinced that someone is covering up what can't be proved, but if you show them a real conspiracy they quickly become bored.
Me, I'll concede that any of it
could be true, but I get tired of people telling me that I
must believe it, or else I just have my head in the sand. It takes untold numbers to keep a secret of any scale, but only one to expose it. If no-one has stepped forward with concrete evidence, then it's a pretty safe bet that it's not true.
Like I said back when the original moon photos got lost, I'll always believe screw-up before I'll believe cover-up.