It wasn’t so long ago that I blogged about Maddox’s great Titanic Conspiracy video, had a chuckle, and moved on.
Then last week, I saw that the BBC had to issue a rebuttal because they’d been inundated with mentals suggested the BBC was in on the plot, and they’ve built this whole bizarre story on the basis that the newsreader said “apparently” instead of “we’ve been told” about some building that fell down 20 minutes later. Interesting reading the comments in that blog to see just how much psychiatric help people need.
I now see WHY the black helicopter brigade are picking on the BBC – I saw a repeat on BBC Four just now of a show broadcast earlier this year as part of The Conspiracy Files season about the 9/11 attack on the USA.
I’m sure there’s a copy on Youtube, but they did a nice job on debunking most of the conspiracies – in particular, one of the theories goes that Flight 93 was shot down. The whole conspiracy is based on the fact that some guy used Google Maps to measure the distance from one side of a lake to the other, came up with 6 miles – even though the map measured the road ROUND the lake, not the flight path distance of a mile!
Here’s a direct link to that particular one, plus all the others in the programme.
This has all been hashed out and thrashed out so many times, but here Alex Jones from Infowars on a rant
Here’s a Youtube Video which attempts to debunk popular mechanic’s debunking of loose change
Here’s the editor of Popular Mechanics talking about their debunking of the theories.
Here’s the original conspiracy video, Loose change (See also Wikipedia article)
And here’s a nice hatchet job on the second edition of the above..
Screw Loose Change
Anyway, if you’re able to read this far without needing someone to wipe your drool (Hawking excluded) and shine the tinfoil on your head, you can probably draw your own conclusion – if in doubt, get Occam’s Razor out.
Tags: bbc, conspiracy-files, Dylan-Avery, infowars, loose-change, popular-mechanics, video, youtube
