5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Shockingly Easy to Debunk

[stopbush]

JFK, WTC, Moon Landing Hoax and more nutty CTs - all debunked in a few sentences.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20466_5-conspiracy-theories-that-are-shockingly-easy-to-debunk.html

[Archae]

1. I don't think we have any moon landing deniers here...

But I have seen posts about the WTC and about JFK.

The "magic bullet?"
Not so magic.

And I'm still waiting for someone, ANYONE, to show us this "nano-thermite" which by all credible accounts seems to exist only in the minds of the "Truthers."

[SidDithers]

3. We did, but they were thankfully banned...

remember defendandprotect?



Sid

[Archae]

5. I don't remember seeing anything from that name.

But he/she was a moon landing denier?

And just below our posts? "The WTC was a controlled demolition!"

Even though there is zero, none, nada evidence for this.
"Loose Change" is "Loose Screws."

This fall the "Flying saucer shot JFK" people will be falling out of the woodwork.
Even though serious and credible investigations have all the evidence points to one guy. Who wasn't a "patsy."

[SidDithers]

6. Yup...

There were a pile of posts in the old dungeon. Not sure if the pics show up anymore, but here's one example. The pics of the "tin foil" were of the lunar module.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x299475

Sid

[Archae]

9. The funniest incident with moon landing deniers...

[SidDithers]

10. Go Buzz...

Sid

[Posteritatis]

11. There was a rather frightening amount of them around here a few years ago

They've thankfully left one way or another since then - the loonier conspiracy theorists tend to have trouble lasting on sites that have any kind of TOS or moderation.

[adric mutelovic]

14. Of course you have seen JFK-conspiracy post. DU OVERWHELMINGLY believes in CT

Care to poll and prove me wrong?

The thing is that it would be bad for you to observe that the JFK assassination conspiracy theorists have convinced most DU'ers, because you wish to paint the JFK murder as kooky.

Piling up a group of conspiracy theorist is an oft-used tool of McAdams' loyalists.

I would stick to debunking the moon thingy, my friend.

[stopbush]

16. Any DU poll on the JFK murder will be taken down faster than you can say Winnebago.

They're usually flame bait.

[Th1onein]

2. Sorry, I think the WTC was a controlled demolition.

Their explanation does not fly.

[reusrename]

24. Of course it was.

It's so obvious on so many levels that it sort of astounds me that people still don't get it.

[SidDithers]

4. Cracked is an amazingly good resource for critical thought...

Thanks for posting.

You might like this one too.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-easy-ways-to-spot-b.s.-news-story-internet/

Sid

[FarCenter]

7. My mother never believed that they went to the moon

The moon is in heaven.
God is in heaven.
The only way that you get to heaven with God is to die.
Therefore they never went to the moon.

Case closed.

[Puzzledtraveller]

36. Stanley Kubrick didn't believe it either.

[sagat]

8. Their 9/11 article is also worth a read.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15740_was-911-inside-job.html

[Archae]

18. Have you noticed something about conspiracy theories?

The older they are, most of the time the less and less credibility they acquire.

The 9-11 conspiracies have had 12 years to find credible evidence, yet they can't.
So now most of them are relegated to their groupies, (those few of them left,) and far-right talk radio like Alex Jones.

It's been almost 50 years since JFK was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
And the conspiracists haven't been able to find any credible evidence for their pet theories.

Oh, some conspiracy theories will always be with us.
Like all the ones saying "The Jews did this and that."

But these conspiracists are pretty empty, and are laughable at best.

[adric mutelovic]

22. Translation: "JFK CT have convinced many people except for me And the rest of the minority"

You also assume that the Lone-nutter crap is "evidence," because you think it is.

[Archae]

27. No, because all credible evidence points to Oswald.

Oswald was a nut.

So far-left he couldn't stand the Soviet Union.
In love with Castro's Cuba.

Was nearly desperate for fame, but a lazy bum.

Hated Kennedy since Kennedy was responsible for the Bay Of Pigs.

"JFK" was fiction.
From a vicious anti-Semite named Oliver Stone.

[adric mutelovic]

12. Cracked's Source to the "debunking" of JFK conspiracy theory: John McAdams

lmao! Perhaps the most ardent lone-nutter in the history of this case.

Why didn't Crack explain why opposing explanation of the limo positions are flawed?

Oh yeah, I know. They didn't read past McAdams. And they were trying to rush an attention-grabbing article.

[stopbush]

15. IF you were honest, you'd admit that anything McAdams has at his site is pulled from the WCR,

the HSCA findings and other investigations that fully support the Oswald-as-lone-gunman proof.

Beating up on McAdams is like beating up on a RW newspaper when it publishes a correct weather report.

[adric mutelovic]

21. "fully suport"

the Oswald-as-lone-gunman Really? I'll give you time to take that back. This will entail reading of the HSCA report, so please do not answer in less than hours.

[stopbush]

30. Unlike you, I've read the WCR and the HSCA report.

Try it. You might learn something.

[reusrename]

25. I think it does take a trained person to keep the limo so steady for so long.

Seven seconds is a long time to be under fire and maintain such a steady hand. It must have been challenging, even for a trained individual.

[stopbush]

29. That's got to be the most-idiotic statement I've ever read about the JFK killing.

[reusrename]

35. really?

With everyone else in the car clearly reacting to the first shots, everyone except the trained professional driver? Clue: the two secret service agents walking 20 feet behind the car actually jump in the back of the car befare the driver does anything.

You don't want to believe it, fine, but it is what happened. It's on film.

[SecularMotion]

13. Architects & Engineers - Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

[Archae]

19. This video is horseshit.

I noticed they never showed the other side of the building, the side facing the WTC towers.

It was heavily damaged, this inconvenient fact is always left out by 9-11 conspiracy liars.

[zappaman]

20. "horseshit"????

That is an insult to horseshit which can be of some use...

[SecularMotion]

23. If one side of the building was "heavily damaged"

while the other side was untouched, how does the building fall into it's own footprint without controlled demolition.

Before responding, please provide your name and the credentials that qualify you to answer the question.

[Agschmid]

32. Ok I'll bite...

Why would it not... Oh but here is the kicker...

Before responding, please provide your name and the credentials that qualify you to answer the question.

Thanks.

[whatchamacallit]

17. Cracked is crap n/t

[reusrename]

26. Here's the first clue for morons.

If an infamous crime is committed and there is never a criminal investigation of the crime, it might be a conspiracy.

It really is that simple.

[Archae]

28. If I said there was a big conspiracy to cover-up Obama being born in Kenya...

Nearly everyone here would jump all over me, since I'd be repeating a right-wing nutcase conspiracy theory.

Yet left-wing nutcase conspiracies like JFK and 9-11? "Oh that's different!"

[stopbush]

31. Bingo!

[Captain Stern]

33. Of course

Because every single conspiracy theory out there is insane bullshit........except the ones I want to believe in.

[SecularMotion]

34. How to respond to an anti Conspiracy Theorist

http://www.tomatobubble.com/id196.html

[cbdo2007]

37. They obviously haven't talked to the conspiracy theorists here...

who have much dumber arguments than the ones mentioned here but still hold steadfast to their opinion no matter how easily it is to debunk them.