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- From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
- Subject: Re: Secret Societies
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225826.28392@starbase.trincoll.edu>
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- Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:58:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.150258.2555@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu wr
- ites:
- >
- >I find it unreasonable that anyone would discredit the basic idea of
- >"conspiracy theory" although there are obviously those who do it.
- >I certainly don't find it unreasonable that one might discredit any
- >given conspiracy theory as we all read the data differently. I ask
- >myself: Why would anyone discredit the basic concept of conspiracy
- >theory?
-
- Why would anyone discredit the basic concept of elves and leprechauns?
-
- >Could someone's attack on conspiracy theory
- >in general [or against particular important conspiracy theories] be part
- >of a conspiracy? Could they be on the payroll for this? Could such
- >a conspirator be unwitting and not think of themselves as being part
- >of a conspiracy but instead accept the myth that they are doing
- >mankind a great service by helping to mid-wife a great new age. Is
- >the "New World Order" far enough along where its proponents can
- >finance propagandists to tailor articles and rebuttals for specific
- >needs or does it have enough volunteers who've bought its line and
- >spew forth its dogma.
-
- Shall I be the first to confess? Very well, I confess. I've been on
- college payrolls for 40 years and I've been teaching students the sub-
- versive doctrine that the burden of proof rests with the person who
- proposes a theory or proposition.
-
- >
- >If there were such a conspiracy by anti-conspiratorialists, how would
- >we ever know? We could only suspect.
-
- No need to suspect. It's a dead certainty.
-
- >-Joe Gaut
-
- Norman Miller
-