The Idiocy of Conspiracy Theorists
Conspiracy theorists are idiots. They are tin-foil hat wearing crazy folks who don’t reason, are
anti-science, and do not accept reputable sources. They are a threat because … um… what if everyone questioned the
news and reports and decisions? What if
everyone spent more than 3 minutes reading an article without declaring
themselves an expert, and actually reasoned, studied, questioned, and
thought? Chaos would ensue.
Conspiracy theorists are so disturbing, as they have been
since around November 1963, that you can search the tagline and find millions
of articles about how ridiculous, outrageous, scary, and damned near demons of
ignorance they are, and far worse than Ebola and the Zika virus. Conspiracy theorists with their crazy
notions may infect you or your loved one, and I’m sure there will be a vaccine
for that soon enough.
I, personally, like the words Coincidence Theorists, or
even, and grab your boot straps here … Critical Thinkers! Conspiracy Theorist is a hacked out word
like groovy, greaser, and bitchin’ (as in that’s bitchin’ cool, for the younger
folk). It was a word created after a
great President made a speech and died weeks later. Yes, he was assassinated after he told the world of a great
conspiracy he had discovered.
Now the word conspiracy is a simple word, it means two or
more people working together to carry out an illegal (or immoral) plot. I write this believing everyone has an
ability to use a dictionary to look up the word. It often has political connotations – because people
conspire! They just do.
In the ten years I’ve been writing articles, books, and
researching full time I am amazed how many conspiracies happen, while most
folks look at the shining box, read the popular “reputable” news sites, and
have no clue. And truly, knowing how
little I know after the books, articles, research I’ve read, and the things
I’ve seen that scare the crap out of me, it’s hard for me to deal with normal
folks. I suppose I’m just not normal
anymore.
I know it’s a used up phrase, but I like thinking outside
the box. I love the strange and impossible; and the supernatural makes me
laugh, cry, and sigh at the same time.
I love when my thoughts are challenged with a new idea, something I hadn’t
considered. I love when people think on
their own, and make connections, gets hints, trust their guts, oh, and did I
say think? I like most anything that
isn’t robotically repeating to me the same thing most everyone else is saying,
as well as, the media, and the reputable news sites, and the snippets, memes,
and sound bites … It makes me a bit
unsettled when I hear soundbites from this newscaster or the other, and then
hear the exact same words from people I know.
Soundbites are literally the reason I gave up cable years
ago, when I would flip from news channel to news channel and hear the exact
same story, the accepted and approved story, handed to me over and over. The news channels began as an offering of
All The News, All The Time, but they only give a little news, approved news all
day, or many days, or how ever long it takes us to get it, and if you don’t get
it, and if it doesn’t make sense, and you question their words then you are a
conspiracy theorist.
The truth is propaganda has been legalized in this
country. The news folks are no longer
required to tell you the truth. And it
grows especially disturbing when you’ve looked deeper - you know those silly
conspiracy folks (almost worse than clowns) looking deeper - and find that most
of what we believe is the truth are truly just lies.
I’ll start with a simple example, we are told that vaccines
are completely safe and absolutely harmless, but what most don’t know is that
the makers of vaccines are free from being sued if you or someone you love is
harmed by the many injections. Another
thing most people don’t know is there is a vaccine injury department within the
government, which has paid out billions of dollars to families since 1986 when
the pharmaceutical companies were made immune.
The cap is 250,000 dollars that is awarded and that is usually when
someone dies. And only about 1 in 5
families who try to sue are allowed to have their cases heard. If you do the math that is an incredible amount
of vaccine injuries that you, or most folks, have never heard about, and it
certainly isn’t being addressed on our 24-hour news channels.
Back in the 1960s there were crazy conspiracy theories about
the government running odd tests on the average American without consent, and
people laughed and mocked, knowing that the government would never hurt
them. Turns out the theories were true
and the program had a name – MK Ultra, the CIA’s mind control program. When the program was finally revealed, the
documents heavily redacted, the truth managed to come out with some video of housewives
given LSD, and one case of a government worker unknowingly given the chemical
and plunging thirteen stories to his death.
The abuses the government used on innocent and unsuspecting Americans
and Canadians included hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and
sexual abuse all in the name of national security. In 1973 the program was halted, or as some coincidence theorists
believe, was simply renamed and still continues.
In the late 1940s there were rumors that the government
hired those “dirty, evil nazis” to work in America. Most folks, full of patriotism after the Second World War
discounted the idea as pure communistic hatred, even though those saying it had
actually participated in the war. Yes,
once again those wacky conspiracy theorists were correct. The program was called Operation Paperclip
where thousands of scientists, engineers, and tech savvy folks were brought to
America and became quite successful in rocketry, aeronautics, medicine,
electronics, and etc. These folks also
escaped the Nuremberg Trials, which mainly focused on the low men on that totem
pole who took the orders, instead of the ones giving them. And recently a 94-year-old man, a former
Nazi prison guard was sentenced to five years in prison. The low men were tried and convicted, the
higher on the pole came over to live the American dream and get top jobs at
NASA, Bayer, and BASF, as well as, many other giants in our society.
Back in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, black folks in the
South grew very suspicious of our government.
There were whispers about not trusting the government, even though the
government was supplying health care, and I suppose of lot of people laughed
and thought it was the weird superstitions that the black folks held. Turns out those suspicious and untrusting
people were right. The Public Health
Service was carrying out studies on men, black men, infected with syphilis –
and they didn’t do the proper thing to cure them, but watched, lied, and did
horrible experiments on them. The
study, which was only to last for six months or so, went on for forty years
while men died and families suffered.
So once again, those whispers, and conspiracy theories proved to be
true.
I literally could go on and on, for pages and pages, of how
what once was a crazy, tin-foil, cracked-head conspiracy theory turned out to
be true, from Karen Silkwood to Gulf of Tonkin to the assassination of
President Kennedy. I could go on and
on, but I will leave it to the reader to do their own research and not simply
trust the shining box or the news channels or the “reputable” sources.
I would suggest if you are going to trust a source that you
deem reputable, you should also explore their funding. The long time Editor-in-Chief of the New
England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, says you can no longer trust
clinical studies, “It is simply no longer
possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely
on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I
take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly
over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Dr. Marcia
Angell was particularly disturbed by doctors giving anti-depressant drugs to
children as young as two years old to fight bi-polar disorder (by the way, what
2 year-old isn’t a bit bi-polar, isn’t that why the phrase “terrible twos”
exists?), which hadn’t been approved for children so young. She read the “approved” articles being
published in medical journals of how to get pharmaceutical cocktails to barely
walking little humans and stated, “No one knows the total amount
provided by drug companies to physicians, but I estimate from the annual
reports of the top 9 U.S.-based drug companies that it comes to tens
of billions of dollars a year in North America alone. By such
means, the pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors
evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians,
particularly senior faculty at prestigious medical schools,
affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even the
definition of what constitutes a disease.”
I wonder if most folks
would consider the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine a crazy
conspiracy theorist? Or the other
people who have made the same statements against medical journals, the CDC,
network news station, and medical schools saying they are owned by the
pharmaceutical companies and are no longer to be trusted.
I could point out how
those crazy folks are often right about the facts when the truth is unveiled,
as it usually is years and lives later.
I could give links of how the media mocks and laughs and literally tries
to create their own conspiracies to make people afraid of thinking.
And speaking of the
media and fear, SARS was doom, Avian Flu was a death sentence, Ebola was gonna
kill us like a scene out of a Steven King novel or the history books, and now
Zika is gonna disable our babies, and let us not forget the sharks, alligators,
and even the weeds in your yard. The
media, which is owned by corporations, needs your fear, and fearful people
usually don’t think, and that is their bread and butter.
As always, keep seeking.
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