Strawman on two levels.
The email release a few years back shows AGW proponents ARE working together to suppress skeptics. And it doesn't take a conspiracy - a shared belief system is more than sufficient.
I have said many times that conspiracy theorists give way too much credit to our government. Keeping a faked moon landing secret would require the complicit silence of thousands of NASA employees. Our government is simply not that competent.
And how many would be involved to fake the Holocaust?
(it wasn’t faked)
Climate change has already been proven to be nothing but a scheme to transfer the wealth of first world nations to turd world kleptocracies.
JFK. Maybe jackie o tapes will tell the story
Just had to throw that one in there didn't they? But, I suspect that's what the entire article was building up to anyway.
And besides, the whole GW thing isn't a conspiracy, it's a religion. A much different animal for True Believers.
My grandmother thought the moon landing was fake. She was also convinced that rasslin’ was real.
Science doesn’t say anything. Headline writers say things. An individual researcher may say something. “Science says” is a good example of the fallacious argument from authority.
Are Climate Change advocates also Global Warming Deniers? After all, only one of those theories finds support from frigid winter polar vortexes. Perhaps people who reason face a vast conspiracy of the indoctrinated.
Speaking of vast conspiracies, does the author consider the “science” of Hillary’s “vast right-wing conspiracy?”
Flight 800 comes to mind; a US Navy vessel shooting it down was one of those conspiracy theories. But could 200-300 sailors all be kept quiet, for that long a time? I think not.
But the possibility of a Muslim-manned small craft armed with a MANPAD or small SAM unit was pooh-poohed from the get go.
JFK was anti-communist. He was killed by a communist.
I don’t see the need for a vast American conspiracy here. One might reasonably wonder if Castro or Moscow were involved.
I can see how the left would like to concoct domestic conspiracy theories rather than face the fact that an American President was murdered by a communist during the height of the cold war.
Fear by using the ability to “disappear” your family and friends is a very strong motivator to keep your mouth shut. Even on your deathbed.
Combined with the ability of 24/7 modern surveillance, it is practically foolproof. No sane individual would go against such a system.
North Korea is a prime example. Say anything against the insane “dear leader” and you’ll watch your family turned into dog food. For 3 generations they have stayed in power with no assassinations...
6 people (if my memory serves correctly) knew about Watergate, and they couldn’t even keep that one secret.
“440,000 people would have to be working together “
I guess they never heard of “bias”.
On the flip side, how are the “deniers” managing to work together when the brilliant “scientists” can’t seem to pull it off?
If NASA faked the moon landing, by now they would have faked something better. ;-)
Just because the truth is exposed doesn’t mean that the conspiracy will be undone. Consider BO’s fake birth certificate, TWA 800, muslim participation in the OKC bombing, etc. The US government routinely lies, denies truth, and does it with media complicity. Look, if the Allies in WWII could convince Hilter that the invasion would not happen at Normandy, what deceptions can be brought on American citizens?
the AGW ‘conspiracy’ isn’t a conspiracy per se, it is more a groupthink situation. the story is telling, and loses credibility by the ‘conspiracies’ it picks to illustrate it’s point, and which it ignores. perhaps the biggest is the JFK, which isn’t even mentioned.
The National Reconnaissance Office that controls the nations spy satellites was kept a pretty good secret for about 40 years. There were rumors of the existence of military spy satellites, but not so much of a giant civilian government organization that managed them.
Evil government, “Tomorrow you will spray this deadly poison chemtrail over Springfield.”
Pilot, “My family reunion is in Springfield tomorrow.”
EG, “Just do it.”
P, “Yes sir.”
Would that be the same “science” that pushes AGW?