Chief Chaos...the very notion that "
The gov't shows up and takes all of it. Every scrap! " is, itself, a conspiracy theory! It is a built-in way to avoid having to deal with all the OTHER possible answers to a puzzle.
   If you start looking at THAT, you get even more puzzles. Just who are these amorphous folks who " ..show up and take all of it...?" There must be hundreds, if not thousands of them, and 'they' have been at it for years. 'They' get old and retire, and over the years some of 'them' would have regrets and do some confessing, or just let slip what they did. NO form of secrecy is absolute when that many people are involved. To believe this theory requires even more suppositions about recruiting, families, competence, funding, storage of evidence, chain-of-command (who is in charge, and who do 'they' report to?).

   I am a skeptic because I SEE the circularity of these arguments and the complexity of contrived hypotheses needed to justify continued belief. **NOTICE**...once again...this does not mean I am denying that any of these stories are true, but only that I require some 'evidence' beyond what is usually dished up. I am aware that 'circumstantial evidence' is often used in court to corroborate other evidence, but there are pretty high standards for what counts.


and as for peach pits *sigh* Why isn't Johns Hopkins using them in its cancer center? Never mind...I know...another conspiracy...because .... the pharmaceutical companies don't want competition. They want ALL your money for their dangerous and often worthless crap.

For some reason, "The Boy Who Cried "Wolf" keeps popping into my head.