Spin-off thread: Your Favorite Conspiracy Theories

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  1. uscvball

    uscvball Founding Member

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    Not sure if it's my favorite but the Obama is a muslim story just won't die. And then he goes and invites the teenage muslim clock-maker to the White House. Really? #itstooeasy
     
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    Winston1 Founding Member

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    Red is correct sort of. Most ancients identified what they could see and catalogued them but had no idea of what they were or how the cosmos worked.

    Likewise there is significant evidence that postulations that ancient civilizations were impacted by alien visitation is preposterous. Any speculation is based on unlikely ifs piled upon unlikely ifs without any evidence. A feeling isn't supportable as a theory.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Blah, blah, blah. Of course, there is other life in the universe with a high degree of probability. And zero evidence. That is what I said all along. You may speculate all you wish but it is not evidence.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    That story is as dead as the one that he was born in Kenya. I wouldn't even call it a conspiracy theory. Its a simple delusion. It may be a potential stumble for Trump though. I hope not, I support him for the Republican nomination.
     
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  5. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    I believe it also showed the United States that air superiority was the way to go.
     
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    I didn't say it was evidence but a degree of probability that enormous is way beyond speculation.
     
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  7. LSUsupaFan

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    Fair enough. I think the credibility of some witnesses is pretty good though. Sure their are mistakes and hoaxes, but others have a higher degree of legitimacy.

    Challenged but never falsified. Many credentialed scientists have reviewed it, and found the gait and proportions inconsistent with human anatomy. Grover Krantz, John Byrne, Jeff Meldrum all feel it is legitimate.

    Jeff Meldrum has cataloged thousands of casts which show necessary anatomical features for a species of the reported bulk of Bigfoot. Many are consistent with the locomotion shown in the Patterson Gimlin footage. Casts are also shown to have dermal ridges on the toes.

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The existence of folkloric man beasts does not preclude the existence of a real man beast. And numerous hair, scat, blood, and tissue samples have been analyzed and comeback as unknown primate. Bryan Sykes wrote a paper on some of the samples he tested.

    Bogeymen don't leave footprints all over the pacific northwest. Bigfoot do.
     
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  8. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Actually, I think one of the guys that made the film came forward and said it was a hoax, I think the other one still claims it to be real. Not sure but I swear I heard something to that effect.

    @red55 how do you explain these? Just some old folks with wild ass imaginations?

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    Zero public evidence, amigo.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Perhaps, but it is high time they came up with some incontrovertible evidence, ain't it? The most probable explanation is still myth. If Sasquatch was interviewed on Conan, we'd all become believers. If Sasquatch exists, he is the reigning worlds hide-and-seek champion.

    Howard, Fine, and Howard think it is all very funny. They have seen him in a TV jerky commercial. :D

    The best hoaxers do extremely good work. Witness the Shroud of Turin, Piltdown Man, and the Vinland Map.

    Indeed. But neither does it prove a damn thing. Burden of proof is on the claimant.

    Interesting. Was it a DNA analysis? Tell me, did any of the samples happen to match any of the others? Or was it simply inconclusive results? And did any third party verify these results?

    Perhaps. But we know for a fact that people do. Just like the crop circles, the hoaxers have admitted many of the hoaxes.

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