It isn’t crazy to question all this and I'd encourage everyone to do so and don't believe everything your television tells you, even if it's not from some "backward country" whatever that means
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Conspiracy theorist was a term which originated from the CIA to classify those who disputed the findings of the Warren Commission into JFK's assassination
You question “all this” but seemingly accept without question whatever dodgy internet site told you that the CIA originated the term “conspiracy theorist “?
Pretty funny isn’t it.
About as funny as believing it's been debunked by incredulous sites like Snopes. Look into them when you have a minute
Perhaps it arose earlier not through them but they certainly "weaponised it". "False flags" are a real thing, check them out, Gulf of Tonkin incident which ramped up US involvement in Vietnam is a less controversial one than 911
Here's one bit of discussion on the matter. I get we won't convince each other by putting up one source against another. You'll claim mine are loopy and I'll claim yours are owned or behlden to a system. Either way, there are different points of view
https://ampoli.com/the-origins-of-the-term-conspiracy-theory/
I'm not here to convince you just to challenge what is being accepted, call me a contrarian if you like but it is a healthy thing to being open to alternate opinions. I respect your right to yours even if I don't agree. I may try to convince you otherwise but I won't call you an idiot or get personal
So no actual evidence then. OK
I rest my case
All you quoted was an article by Arthur Blair. Hardly 1st hand evidence. Arthur Blair seriously the pen name being George Orwell. I rest my case.
It was just an example and technically he was Eric Arthur Blair
Could be a coincidence although as you’d probably guess I’m not big on those
It wasn’t meant as proof of anything, just that there are lots of different views our there
Views are fine, but sometimes extraordinary claims needs extraordinary evidence.
Anyway I don’t think we will ever agree. I’m more into critical thinking than anything else. I’ll go wherever the evidence takes me.
The evidence can be contrived and take you where they want to take you
Critical thinking is good, I’d encourage it at all times
Not a lot of critical thinking going on here today. People prepared to believe a single doctor stuck on an island in Canada vs the overwhelming evidence that the Pandemic is real and it is currently out of control and killing thousands a day.
Don’t be to hard on your efforts here today Mike but there are a stack of divergent points of view, it’s not a single doctor, but you know that
I’d encourage people to expand their sources of information, a traditional media approach or even a peer reviewed science basis isn’t the be all and end all
Just like politicians, media heads and academics can be corrupted, perhaps even more easily
It’s not a matter of view, it’s a matter of evidence. I don’t believe anything off mainstream media, at the best it may indicate the need for further investigation. I always try and link back to the source and first hand accounts. At worst I will look at sites like Science Based Medicine for a lead. If it’s not science based I’m really not interested.
