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North Head Devonport, North Shore. It seems to have undergone a slow transformation, and still seem in need of some TLC. But it’s fairly accessible and an easy hour of your time. We’ve always taken a torch, there are a few … Continue reading
I make no secret of the fact that I’m really not sure that Neil Armstrong landed on the moon as advertised.
JFK was shot by a lone gunman, there is no bigfoot, we are not ruled by Aliens, 9/11 wasn’t an inside job. Rosewell wasn’t aliens, Area 51 does not house spacecraft or aliens, vaccinations are good. Princess Diana had a car crash.
I don’t believe it’s man-mad climate change, and I’m against fluoridation of water. And as for the nonsense that was folic acid in bread!
For a conspiracy to be attractive you have to be at the point where you believe in a counter position, or to be sufficiently disbelieving of the stated facts, that your own belief carries more weigh and your conviction.
Like going to the moon. I’m not convinced that the Saturn V rocket worked first time, and every time afterwards. I’m just not. There are a billion websites and a billion counter websites that go over the arguments for and against, from the dodgy photographs to the physics, I’m just not going to repeat them here. Of course it could be that you just believe that we did, and that the records are correct without question. in no time in history has there ever been falsehood in any account.
The thing is that you don’t have to have that many people “in” on the conspiracy, it wouldn’t be difficult to stage. It appeals because it’s an elegant alternative to someone who has incredulity about the ‘actual’ event.
Sure many conspiracies unravel over time, but many endure. Is it the grand scale of the moon landings that means I’m wrong, I didn’t say I had proofs either way. Besides which I don’t know if asked “What would lead you to believe that it was true” that I could give any answer except fly me up there to show me the footprints.
Enduring conspiracies include, of course, religion, and the whole myth and dogma surrounding jesus. But that’s not a conspiracy in the sense that a government is trying to fool all of the people all of the time.
I’ve been listening to a number of skeptical podcasts, that is podcasts that have a skeptical look at things. I’d recommend the Righteous Indignation podcasts, they’ve been interviewing ‘believers’ in a very sympathetic way.
Anyways. Thing is. Climate change. Again.
I don’t believe it’s a man-made thing. I still believe this. I believe in climate change, it’s obvious, or seems obvious with age. Seasons are later then I remember as a child, and summer seems to last longer into the new year. So it seems.
What troubles me still is the ‘man made’ bit. I’ve blogged a bit on this before, so this is not a new position for me.
Where do I sit then when people want to throw out labels such as ‘climate change denier’. Skeptical podcasters do this, somehow they’ve elevated themselves to label makers. Of course I side with them about Homeopathy, Psychics and UFOlogists, but they are just different thinkers.
But “denier” gets my heckles up in an angry way. I don’t deny it, I just deny that man did it.
I don’t believe man went to the moon either. Just don’t believe they had the technology.
I don’t believe that there was a gunman on the grassy knoll, that Dianna was assassinated or that Lizards are the true rulers of the planet.
I believe that injections for vaccination are good things, I don’t believe that fluoride in the water is a good thing – mass medication seems wrong, like putting folic acid in bread for the tiny number of pregnant women that have a deficiency – just seems wrong in an overkill way.
I don’t believe in God, Heaven or Hell (I do capitalize just in case 
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