conspiracy

Climate Truthers Spend Weekend Looking at Boring E-mails

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:24

It's amazing what you can find if you have a bit of imagination, and access to somebody's personal e-mail account. Careful scrutiny of my mails, for example, could reveal many interesting things; that I cycle to work every day, that I am Belle de Jour, and that my Grandfather made up Antarctica for a bet. Much like, say, the Bible, or a tabloid headline ending in a question-mark, given a suitably ambiguous piece of text you can read from it pretty much whatever you like.

Swine Flu - The Conspiracy

Sat, 04/25/2009 - 23:57

[bpsdb] It's close to becoming a truism now that every unusual event is immediately greeted with a chorus of conspiracy theories, and Swine Flu is no exception. If you want to see some extremely impressive analysis of the situation, then you should head on over to the guys at Effect Measure, who are putting the mainstream media to shame. But the people I'm about to present to you have a rather different take.

As an example of just how different this take is, the title of the piece I'm about to quote is "It is Time to Shoot Back."

The Hudson River Crash - The First Flight 1549 Conspiracy Theories

Fri, 01/16/2009 - 22:46

[bpsdb] The internet. Never before in human history has it been possible for so many dumb people to construct so much garbage in such a short amount of time following a breaking new story. And unsurprisingly, the "miraculous" escape of the passengers on the Airbus A320 that was heroically parked on the River Hudson recently, has got the conspiracy theorists twitching and twittering already.