Agreed, sciencegeek.

The only reason I answer someone like Songwronger is not necessarily to answer him. But he seems to operate on the Hitlerian idea that "If you repeat a lie big enough and often enough, people will begin to believe it." By rebutting him by exposing the spurious nature of his sources, I hope to show what Songwronger and his cohorts (like Goofball) are up to, and not to be naïve enough to fall for it.

I have a relative who listens to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and swallows their garbage whole. With him, I just avoid any kind of political discussion. He's hopeless!!

And a friend of ours who lives down the street who is absolutely convinced that President Obama is spying on her. She's see "drones" hovering outside her window (I've noticed that she goes absolutely cock-eyed about this in seasons when hummingbirds abound, and she does have a garden outside her window). It occurs to me that it would be a total waste of time, money, and resources to keep her under surveillance because, other than being totally crackers, she's essentially harmless. I don't argue with her either, because it would be fruitless and she'd just start to suspect me of being in on Obama's plot to spy on her.

No, Songwronger, Goofball, and a couple of others are too far down the road to conspiracy theories based on their own paranoia and bigotry to save, so no point in even trying.

Don Firth