Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories abound.

Sometimes they are confusing, sometimes they are quite convincing but, mostly, they are just laughable.

What do we do about those? Well, ‘laugh’ seems appropriate.

It may well be that some are serious and accurate. How do we know? We don’t. We read them and chuckle or we consider or we grimace and think that the theory is, if not entirely convincing it is, after all, plausible,

In our own minds it seems plausible. We are basing this agreement with the writer, or presenter, of this idea on our own previous experience and knowledge—sometimes our lack of knowledge.

We have been told that the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima was the result of a tidal wave. It may be news to you that the Israelis used a deep-sea nuclear bomb to create the tidal wave; the meltdown never happened because aerial photographs of the nuclear power plant show that the radioactive core was removed for maintenance at the time of the tidal wave—thus rendering it inert.

Shocking, isn’t it?

You are, of course, aware that al-Qaeda, as a terrorist group, never really existed. It was a general idea—a hypothesis, if you will, that caught on and was encapsulated by the intelligence (sic) services to provide a point of aim for public hatred. Osama bin Laden was, no doubt (and maybe still is) a brilliant man but his ability to assemble disparate groups to do his bidding in an organised way is questionable. Thus we have the idea that others must have administered the crashing of aircraft into the Twin Towers, an abominable act. Perhaps the CIA or MOSSAD did it to pursue their own anti-Arab/Muslim agenda.

Plausible?

Is Osama bin Laden dead?

Who knows?

Who shot Kennedy?

Ah! The grassy knoll and the third gunman. Why not four? Or five? How convenient that the alleged perpetrator was shot on the scene by an enraged ‘bystander’!

Convenient juxtaposition of people.

Libya—especially Benghazi; Syria; Iraq; Afghanistan; North Pakistan? All are sources of material for conspiracists.

UFO’s, alien abductions and other ‘alien interferences’ with our lives have become a ubiquitous phenomena.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, a notable mind, said that when you get to the point where you say, “I don’t know what it is,” that is where the conversation stops. We should not go on endlessly making suppositions to fill in the blanks in our heads. If it is ‘unidentified’ then that is the end—we cannot identify it and so it should remain.

A friend of mine went for some years without having a girlfriend. Another colleague suggested to me that my friend was a homosexual. When I asked him why he should suppose that he told me that he had not observed my friend with a female companion. I asked him if he had seen him with a male companion in a recreational role. He said that he had not so I told him that this was proof positive that my friend was a hermaphrodite.

We can make up anything from a lack of evidence.

An absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

What about spraying chemicals from aeroplanes? This is a common conspiracy idea.

Commercial aircraft go up to thirty six thousand feet and spray the population with chemicals. Wonderful idea.

However, we should just look at that a tiny bit closer.

If I am on the ground under an aeroplane that is spraying something from thirty six thousand feet, no matter how toxic it might be, I am not going to throw myself into any sort of immediate panic. By the time the chemical gets to me—if it ever does get down this far, it will be so diluted as to be completely useless as any sort of biological agent.

Who orders this to be done? Are they people who live down here with us? People who will also get sprayed?

What is the supposed effect of this mysterious chemical? What is the point? How will affected people react that will benefit those that ordered the spraying to be done?

Who loads this chemical onto the aeroplane? What is the system that is used to deliver the spray into the atmosphere?

Commercial aircraft are flying for revenue. The enemy is weight. The heavier an aircraft is the more fuel it will burn. That is a fact. It is called ‘Physics’.

Those of us that have worked on aircraft for half a century are aware of the different systems on aeroplanes, some of us teach those systems to others.

The delivery system does not exist. The chemical does not exist. It, the chemical, would have to have a safety approval from IATA, ICAO, FAA, EASA, etc., before it can be carried on the aeroplane. Show me this certificate.

You can’t. It is hogwash.

Perhaps that is exactly what it is! We have uncovered the truth at last.

Commercial aircraft are spraying chemicals from thirty six thousand feet to clean the pig population.

It is hogwash!