In terms of moral and ethical boundaries Mike Adams is well known for crossing the line often with his promotion of dangerous pseudoscience and disgusting conspiracy theories, as well as calling anyone that promotes real science, debunks his claims, or criticizes him a shill. He also says some other pretty horrible things about his critics (most of the time this is ignored because none of his critics really cares what he says about them, they're just more concerned over what he promotes and how he influences people), and in the case of Jon Entine, threatens to sue them.
A few days ago he crossed another line, and this one may just get him thrown in prison.
On his main website, Natural News, Adams wrote an article that can be best described as endorsing and encouraging the murder of anyone that supports Monsanto and the biotech industry in general (read his article here).
To quote his article:
"Monsanto collaborators who have signed on to accelerate heinous crimes being committed against humanity under the false promise of 'feeding the world' with toxic GMOs."
and...
"that it is the moral right — and even the obligation — of human beings everywhere to actively plan and carry out the killing of those engaged in heinous crimes against humanity."
That pretty much says it all. He is saying that people that support GMO foods and the biotech industry should be killed, and that it is justifiable to do so.
He later went on to say that:
"For the record, in no way do I condone vigilante violence against anyone, and I believe every condemned criminal deserves a fair trial and a punishment that fits the crime. Do not misinterpret this article as any sort of call for violence, as I wholly disavow any such actions. I am a person who demands due process under the law for all those accused of crimes."
Yet those two lines, plus the title, Biotech genocide, Monsanto collaborators and the Nazi legacy of ‘science’ as justification for murder, clearly shows he means otherwise.
He then "endorsed" a website call Monsanto Collaborators which has a list of people that are claimed to be "collaborators" with Monsanto. Not surprising the people on this list are critics of his.
A day later in a poor attempt to do damage control (and perhaps avoid law enforcement investigating him) he went on to denounce Monsanto Collaborators, and not unexpectedly claimed it was a "shill" website meant to defame the anti-GMO movement. This denouncement looked not only very suspicious, but also makes one wonder why he would endorse such a website in the first place.
This denouncement means nothing, mostly because of his endorsement of killing GMO supporters, but also because evidence has pointed towards him as being the person in-charge of that website (read here and here) or at the very least being involved with it. This should be pretty obvious too considering the fact that everyone mention on the "collaborators" list are, as I said before, huge critics of his.
Mike Adams has been receiving a lot of criticism over the past couple of month, starting with his obvious attempt to intimidate Jon Entine to get him to retract an article that criticized him by threatening to sue Entine, as well as him intimidating Forbes to take down said article (you can still read the article here) to criticism of his appearance on Dr. Oz, to other random everyday criticisms of him.
Despite this criticism of him, all of which has been brought onto him by his own behavior as well as endorsement of dangerous pseudoscience and promotion of conspiracy theories, he has no right to make threats like this. Doing this will get you in trouble with law enforcement, and it does appear he is being investigated by the FBI.
The best way to counter criticism is by making good arguments with logic and evidence. Mike Adams does none of that. He just makes wild accusations and calls anyone that criticizes him a shill.
Update: Mike Adams has done some "cleaning up" of his original article by deleting certain parts that could be considered death threats. How ever, the original article can still be read here.
Special thanks to This Week in Pseudoscience for the link.
Monsanto Collaborators is also down due to "Bandwidth allocation exceeded", but you can still see the site here.
You can also read more about this situation here at Genetic Literacy Project.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
Friday, May 30, 2014
"You might be a domestic terrorist if:" A look into conspiracy theorist claims about what makes a person a terrorist
Recently in one of skeptics groups that I belong to on Facebook someone posted this picture they found on a conspiracy theorist group:
Apparently conspiracy theorists believe that because some people believe or do certain then that makes them a "terrorist".
This picture is one of the most blatant examples of persecution complex that I have seen in a while and kind of shows the mindset of a conspiracy theorist.
I'm going to go through all of these claims and explain why believing in these things does not make you a domestic terrorist:
You raise/grow your own food
Why would this make you a domestic terrorist? The answer is it doesn't.
Millions of people across the country grow their own food in one way or another, be it either in small plots as a hobby (as my dad does) and as a way to have fresh fruits, herbs, and vegetables, or in greenhouses, or in large fields that provide enough food to feed their entire family. Heck, even the White House has it's own vegetable garden.
If growing your own food made you a domestic terrorist, then why wouldn't the government just go around to everyones' houses and destroy their gardens and green houses? Or pass laws that make it illegal to grow your own food? They wouldn't because growing your own food is harmless and effects no one.
Oppose GMOs
Opposing GMO foods does not make you a terrorist. It might make you someone who doesn't understand the science behind GMO foods, or someone who has embraced anti-GMO propaganda, but not understanding science or embracing some group's claims without questioning them doesn't make you a terrorist.
If opposing GMO foods made you a terrorist then there would be no organic foods in any grocery store or farmers market anywhere, and no laws meant to either label GMO foods or prevent them from being grown or sold would ever be proposed, much less passed.
Prefer natural medicines
If this was true then how come the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a official United States government agency that researches and promotes things like natural medicines, even exists?
While the government does restrict multiple types of alternative and natural medicines, this is only because some of them are dangerous, or the manufactures claim it can do something when infact it cannot.
If natural medicines made a person a terrorist then all forms of alternative medicine would be illegal and people who sale it or even promote it would be going to prison.
Refuse vaccinations
Refusing vaccines does not make you a terrorist as there no laws that say that you have to get vaccinated. However, it does make you dangerous to others, as well as your own self as it puts you at greater risk for getting infected with a disease that could kill you, as well as spreading said disease to others who either weren't vaccinate because they also choose not to (or their parents choose not to have them vaccinated) or a person whom couldn't get vaccinate for various medical reasons, or someone whom did get vaccinated but the vaccine did not take affect for some reason.
Have a Ron Paul bumper sticker
This does not make you a terrorist, it just makes you someone who likes Ron Paul and refuses to accept the reality that he'll never be President, and someone who doesn't know when to take a bumper sticker off of their car.
Question 9/11
Believing in 9/11 conspiracy theories, or any other conspiracy theory for that matter, doesn't make you a terrorist. If it did then people like Alex Jones and Mike Adams would be in prison, and their websites, as well as any other websites that promote 9/11 conspiracy theories, would be shut down. This also include Youtube videos, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts that also promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Object to geo-engineering
I would ask what exactly do they mean by this, but I think they're talking about chemtrails.
Being opposed to geo-engineering chemtrails does not make you a terrorist, but this is due to the fact chemtrails don't exist, and even if they did, there are no laws that says that you cannot object to it.
However, if you threaten to shoot down a plane because you believe that it's spraying these imaginary chemicals, then you are a terrorist, or atleast someone whom has the potential to become one.
Oppose war
How does opposing war make you a terrorist? If anything it makes you the exact opposite, unless you oppose war via violence.
Support the Constitution
Why would supporting the Constitution make you a terrorist? I can't think of any reason why.
Certain people and places may not like it when a person expresses their rights as outlined in the Constitution, and have even tried to stop people from doing so, but whenever taken to court those people and places almost always lose.
If supporting the Constitution and standing up for your rights made you a terrorist then the people who stand up for their rights would always lose court cases where argue their Constitutional rights, and would go to prison for doing so.
Reject the NWO and Agenda 21
Rejecting the NWO does not make you a terrorist, but this is mostly due to the fact that the NWO does not exist.
As for rejecting Agenda 21 this also does not make you a terrorist. At worst it might make you someone that believes in the conspiracy theories about Agenda 21, but that only makes you uninformed about what Agenda 21 is, as well as someone that only listens to what other conspiracy theorists say it is rather than looking it up and reading about it yourself.
Believe your gov't is corrupt
I guess that means that I'm a terrorist! Because I think the government is corrupt.
Almost everyone believes that the government is corrupt, and there is a very good reason for that. Because it is, or atleast certain parts of it is.
If believing that the government was corrupt made you a terrorist, then you would never ever hear or read about in the news about any sort of corruption that goes on in the government because if a news organization did report on government corruption they would be labeled a terrorist group and shut down.
This picture is one of the most blatant examples of persecution complex that I have seen in a while and kind of shows the mindset of a conspiracy theorist.
I'm going to go through all of these claims and explain why believing in these things does not make you a domestic terrorist:
You raise/grow your own food
Why would this make you a domestic terrorist? The answer is it doesn't.
Millions of people across the country grow their own food in one way or another, be it either in small plots as a hobby (as my dad does) and as a way to have fresh fruits, herbs, and vegetables, or in greenhouses, or in large fields that provide enough food to feed their entire family. Heck, even the White House has it's own vegetable garden.
If growing your own food made you a domestic terrorist, then why wouldn't the government just go around to everyones' houses and destroy their gardens and green houses? Or pass laws that make it illegal to grow your own food? They wouldn't because growing your own food is harmless and effects no one.
Oppose GMOs
Opposing GMO foods does not make you a terrorist. It might make you someone who doesn't understand the science behind GMO foods, or someone who has embraced anti-GMO propaganda, but not understanding science or embracing some group's claims without questioning them doesn't make you a terrorist.
If opposing GMO foods made you a terrorist then there would be no organic foods in any grocery store or farmers market anywhere, and no laws meant to either label GMO foods or prevent them from being grown or sold would ever be proposed, much less passed.
Prefer natural medicines
If this was true then how come the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a official United States government agency that researches and promotes things like natural medicines, even exists?
While the government does restrict multiple types of alternative and natural medicines, this is only because some of them are dangerous, or the manufactures claim it can do something when infact it cannot.
If natural medicines made a person a terrorist then all forms of alternative medicine would be illegal and people who sale it or even promote it would be going to prison.
Refuse vaccinations
Refusing vaccines does not make you a terrorist as there no laws that say that you have to get vaccinated. However, it does make you dangerous to others, as well as your own self as it puts you at greater risk for getting infected with a disease that could kill you, as well as spreading said disease to others who either weren't vaccinate because they also choose not to (or their parents choose not to have them vaccinated) or a person whom couldn't get vaccinate for various medical reasons, or someone whom did get vaccinated but the vaccine did not take affect for some reason.
Have a Ron Paul bumper sticker
This does not make you a terrorist, it just makes you someone who likes Ron Paul and refuses to accept the reality that he'll never be President, and someone who doesn't know when to take a bumper sticker off of their car.
Question 9/11
Believing in 9/11 conspiracy theories, or any other conspiracy theory for that matter, doesn't make you a terrorist. If it did then people like Alex Jones and Mike Adams would be in prison, and their websites, as well as any other websites that promote 9/11 conspiracy theories, would be shut down. This also include Youtube videos, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts that also promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Object to geo-engineering
I would ask what exactly do they mean by this, but I think they're talking about chemtrails.
Being opposed to geo-engineering chemtrails does not make you a terrorist, but this is due to the fact chemtrails don't exist, and even if they did, there are no laws that says that you cannot object to it.
However, if you threaten to shoot down a plane because you believe that it's spraying these imaginary chemicals, then you are a terrorist, or atleast someone whom has the potential to become one.
Oppose war
How does opposing war make you a terrorist? If anything it makes you the exact opposite, unless you oppose war via violence.
Support the Constitution
Why would supporting the Constitution make you a terrorist? I can't think of any reason why.
Certain people and places may not like it when a person expresses their rights as outlined in the Constitution, and have even tried to stop people from doing so, but whenever taken to court those people and places almost always lose.
If supporting the Constitution and standing up for your rights made you a terrorist then the people who stand up for their rights would always lose court cases where argue their Constitutional rights, and would go to prison for doing so.
Reject the NWO and Agenda 21
Rejecting the NWO does not make you a terrorist, but this is mostly due to the fact that the NWO does not exist.
As for rejecting Agenda 21 this also does not make you a terrorist. At worst it might make you someone that believes in the conspiracy theories about Agenda 21, but that only makes you uninformed about what Agenda 21 is, as well as someone that only listens to what other conspiracy theorists say it is rather than looking it up and reading about it yourself.
Believe your gov't is corrupt
I guess that means that I'm a terrorist! Because I think the government is corrupt.
Almost everyone believes that the government is corrupt, and there is a very good reason for that. Because it is, or atleast certain parts of it is.
If believing that the government was corrupt made you a terrorist, then you would never ever hear or read about in the news about any sort of corruption that goes on in the government because if a news organization did report on government corruption they would be labeled a terrorist group and shut down.
Friday, May 2, 2014
5 Things I've noticed about... Mike Adams
Mike Adams, the creator of the website Natural News, and one of the biggest promoters of alternative medicine there is, also known as non-science and non-evidence based medicine.
Now many things have been said about him and the way he acts, and I myself have noticed a few things about him as well.
So here are five things I've noticed about Mike Adams:
5. He's a conspiracy theorist.
Mike Adams, despite the fact that his website, Natural News, constantly writes about stuff related to medicine (by that I mean bad mouthing science and evidence based medicine and promoting alternative medicine, no matter how ridiculous or dangerous it is) is neither a doctor, nor a scientist. He is a conspiracy theorist who promotes just about every conspiracy theory there is, although he mainly promotes "big pharma" conspiracy theories.
Even if he was an actual doctor or scientist with a legitimate degree in either science or medicine it still wouldn't matter, because what he's promoting is non-science based medicine, as well as other types of conspiracy theories besides just the big pharma ones, and he's using fear mongering and paranoia inorder to promote these things, as well as bash science and evidence based medicine.
Pretty much his only "connection" with the health industry is his self appointed title of "The Health Ranger", and that his website is used as an example by those in the health care industry and those who promote science based medicine as what a bad science website looks like.
4. He's against all forms of science based medicine.
Mike Adams isn't just someone whom believes that there are a few types of science based medicines and medical techniques that are bad for you. Nope, he's against them all, no matter how much scientific evidence there is showing that something works, like chemotherapy, or vaccines, or drugs that help fight HIV (which he thinks doesn't exist in the first place).
It almost seems like anything that's accepted and promoted by a valid and respected medical organization is automatically viewed by Adams as dangerous and part of a conspiracy. I bet he would even tell people who come to his website not to use homeopathy, acupuncture, or chiropractic "medicine" if several legitimate medical associations were to come out and say that this stuff works and works well. Infact I bet he would claim that people in homeopathy, acupuncture, or chiropractic "medicine" were hiding the fact that their stuff doesn't work, and that they were sending out shills, or just using brain washed idiots to spread disinformation and make threats to try to scare off people who questions them, and even go so far as to sue people who criticize them...
Hopefully you see the irony in the that last sentence there.
3. He's created a website that's a perfect example of Scopie's Law.
Scopie' Law read's as this:
"In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately... and gets you laughed out of the room."
While the original internet law is referring to another pseudoscience and conspiracy theory promoting website, Whale.to, it can easily be applied to Natural News. Infact some people even mistake Natural News as being the website originally talked about in Scopie's Law, and not Whale.to simply due to it's notoriousness for being wrong about everything.
Citing Natural News for anything other than an example of what a really bad science website looks like will make even the most open minded of skeptics disregard either an article or someone's argument, and pretty much view it as being bogus and full of lies.
2. He hates skeptics.
All conspiracy theorists and promoters of pseudoscience hates skeptics. Mike Adams is no exception. What is exceptional however is his venomousness towards skeptics [read here for an example].
He thinks that skeptics are willing to accept anything that "big pharma" says is good without question, and that we're all mindless zombies, simply because we don't believe what he believes, when in reality we accept science and evidence instead of unproven or disproven claims.
That's is just how he feels about your average skeptic like myself. Now with professional and famous skeptics, he thinks they are outright evil and has accused many of them of committing just about every sort of crime there is.
Maybe he doesn't actually not like skeptics? Maybe he just doesn't like people telling him he's wrong, and then using science and evidence to show him why he's wrong.
1. He's the perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
What the Dunning-Kruger effect basically states is that people who are not very intelligent will often overestimate their own intelligence and don't question themselves over whether or not they are right or wrong.
Mike Adams is a prefect example of this.
His articles on his website are written in such a way that while it's obvious to most people that he doesn't know what he's talking about, it's also quite obvious that he thinks he knows what he is talking about.
This is probably the reason why he created a website like Natural News in the first place. He believes that alternative medicine is good for you, and that everything else is bad, and because he is so confident in his own intelligence he doesn't second guess himself, and doesn't believe that you should either.
Now many things have been said about him and the way he acts, and I myself have noticed a few things about him as well.
So here are five things I've noticed about Mike Adams:
5. He's a conspiracy theorist.
Mike Adams, despite the fact that his website, Natural News, constantly writes about stuff related to medicine (by that I mean bad mouthing science and evidence based medicine and promoting alternative medicine, no matter how ridiculous or dangerous it is) is neither a doctor, nor a scientist. He is a conspiracy theorist who promotes just about every conspiracy theory there is, although he mainly promotes "big pharma" conspiracy theories.
Even if he was an actual doctor or scientist with a legitimate degree in either science or medicine it still wouldn't matter, because what he's promoting is non-science based medicine, as well as other types of conspiracy theories besides just the big pharma ones, and he's using fear mongering and paranoia inorder to promote these things, as well as bash science and evidence based medicine.
Pretty much his only "connection" with the health industry is his self appointed title of "The Health Ranger", and that his website is used as an example by those in the health care industry and those who promote science based medicine as what a bad science website looks like.
4. He's against all forms of science based medicine.
Mike Adams isn't just someone whom believes that there are a few types of science based medicines and medical techniques that are bad for you. Nope, he's against them all, no matter how much scientific evidence there is showing that something works, like chemotherapy, or vaccines, or drugs that help fight HIV (which he thinks doesn't exist in the first place).
It almost seems like anything that's accepted and promoted by a valid and respected medical organization is automatically viewed by Adams as dangerous and part of a conspiracy. I bet he would even tell people who come to his website not to use homeopathy, acupuncture, or chiropractic "medicine" if several legitimate medical associations were to come out and say that this stuff works and works well. Infact I bet he would claim that people in homeopathy, acupuncture, or chiropractic "medicine" were hiding the fact that their stuff doesn't work, and that they were sending out shills, or just using brain washed idiots to spread disinformation and make threats to try to scare off people who questions them, and even go so far as to sue people who criticize them...
Hopefully you see the irony in the that last sentence there.
3. He's created a website that's a perfect example of Scopie's Law.
Scopie' Law read's as this:
"In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately... and gets you laughed out of the room."
While the original internet law is referring to another pseudoscience and conspiracy theory promoting website, Whale.to, it can easily be applied to Natural News. Infact some people even mistake Natural News as being the website originally talked about in Scopie's Law, and not Whale.to simply due to it's notoriousness for being wrong about everything.
Citing Natural News for anything other than an example of what a really bad science website looks like will make even the most open minded of skeptics disregard either an article or someone's argument, and pretty much view it as being bogus and full of lies.
2. He hates skeptics.
All conspiracy theorists and promoters of pseudoscience hates skeptics. Mike Adams is no exception. What is exceptional however is his venomousness towards skeptics [read here for an example].
He thinks that skeptics are willing to accept anything that "big pharma" says is good without question, and that we're all mindless zombies, simply because we don't believe what he believes, when in reality we accept science and evidence instead of unproven or disproven claims.
That's is just how he feels about your average skeptic like myself. Now with professional and famous skeptics, he thinks they are outright evil and has accused many of them of committing just about every sort of crime there is.
Maybe he doesn't actually not like skeptics? Maybe he just doesn't like people telling him he's wrong, and then using science and evidence to show him why he's wrong.
1. He's the perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
What the Dunning-Kruger effect basically states is that people who are not very intelligent will often overestimate their own intelligence and don't question themselves over whether or not they are right or wrong.
Mike Adams is a prefect example of this.
His articles on his website are written in such a way that while it's obvious to most people that he doesn't know what he's talking about, it's also quite obvious that he thinks he knows what he is talking about.
This is probably the reason why he created a website like Natural News in the first place. He believes that alternative medicine is good for you, and that everything else is bad, and because he is so confident in his own intelligence he doesn't second guess himself, and doesn't believe that you should either.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
This would be considered satire if it hadn't come from Mike Adams
On the internet I occasionally see statements from people that are so blatantly outrageous that I would naturally assume it was some sort of satire, unless I knew that person was prone to make such outrageous statements.
Today I saw one of those statements, and if it had come from someone other than professional conspiracy theorist Mike Adams, I would have assumed it was satire.
Just read what he wrote and you'll know what I mean:
I'm certain the irony of what he wrote hasn't been lost on anyone who has read that.
I'm fairly certain that Neil DeGrasse Tyson endorse the "core philosophy" of Natural News, and that's because, contrary to what Mike Adams claims, Natural News does not "follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything!"
Natural News does not do this. What it really does is make things up, cherry picks certain quotes and data in a piss poor attempt to back up it's own BS, refuses to back down on their claims no matter how much evidence is brought forth showing they are wrong, and then mocks and insults anyone who calls out the site for it's BS, and then for good measure calls that person a "shill".
As you read in the last line you can see that this is a blatant attempt to "encourage" (i.e. trick) Neil DeGrasse Tyson into endorsing a couple of their views that they hold, that being that vaccines cause autism and still contain mercury (which it doesn't contain, nor does it cause autism) and that modern day dentistry is dangerous (which it isn't, it's just painful).
This is just a another attempt by Mike Adams to sneak his views into the scientific community (which totally rejects his views and would never even consider using Natural News as a source) and the public in general by trying to ride the coat tails of a popular and well respected scientist.
Just one more little note: Neil DeGrasse Tyson does support vaccines and has said that they do not cause autism, so I don't see him supporting Adams on this, or anything really, in the near or distant future.
Today I saw one of those statements, and if it had come from someone other than professional conspiracy theorist Mike Adams, I would have assumed it was satire.
Just read what he wrote and you'll know what I mean:
I'm certain the irony of what he wrote hasn't been lost on anyone who has read that.
I'm fairly certain that Neil DeGrasse Tyson endorse the "core philosophy" of Natural News, and that's because, contrary to what Mike Adams claims, Natural News does not "follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything!"
Natural News does not do this. What it really does is make things up, cherry picks certain quotes and data in a piss poor attempt to back up it's own BS, refuses to back down on their claims no matter how much evidence is brought forth showing they are wrong, and then mocks and insults anyone who calls out the site for it's BS, and then for good measure calls that person a "shill".
As you read in the last line you can see that this is a blatant attempt to "encourage" (i.e. trick) Neil DeGrasse Tyson into endorsing a couple of their views that they hold, that being that vaccines cause autism and still contain mercury (which it doesn't contain, nor does it cause autism) and that modern day dentistry is dangerous (which it isn't, it's just painful).
This is just a another attempt by Mike Adams to sneak his views into the scientific community (which totally rejects his views and would never even consider using Natural News as a source) and the public in general by trying to ride the coat tails of a popular and well respected scientist.
Just one more little note: Neil DeGrasse Tyson does support vaccines and has said that they do not cause autism, so I don't see him supporting Adams on this, or anything really, in the near or distant future.
Friday, September 13, 2013
5 Things I've noticed about... 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
A few months ago I did one of these "5 Things I've noticed about..." articles on the people in the 9/11 Truth Movement, and it had me thinking to myself "what about the conspiracy theories that the people in the 9/11 Truth Movements promote?"
So what about those conspiracy theories, and what are some of the biggest things about them that just stand out? Well, I've noticed a lot of things about them, and I've narrowed them down to five different things.
So here are five things I've noticed about 9/11 conspiracy theories:
5. There are a lot of them.
Probably one of the biggest problems with the 9/11 conspiracy theories is that there are more than one of them, instead of just one that the people who believe in and focus on.
For some people these can be confusing not only because they are all very different, but they are mostly not even connected to one another.
Not only can they be confusing, but they are also progressively more bizarre as well.
There is the let it happen theory, the controlled demolition theory, the drone plane theory, the nuke theory, and even the no plane/space lasers (which is so bizarre a person in the 9/11 Truth Movement debunked it).
I guess you say that the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a lot like the JFK assassination conspiracy theories in that not only are there more than one theory to what happened, but also because...
4. There is apparently more than one perpetrator.
Besides there just being more than one 9/11 conspiracy theory, according to these conspiracy theories, there is no solid conclusion on who the "real" perpetrator is.
Some people claim that it was Al-Qaida, it's just that those in the government allowed them to attack. Some people say that it was a collaboration between the government and Al-Qaida. Some people believe it was just the government, or Israel, or the Illuminati, or someone else entirely.
It just seems like none of these conspiracy theorists who claim that 9/11 was an inside job can agree upon who did it, and how they did it. Of course that isn't very surprising to me, because...
3. The biggest promoters of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are kooks.
Now I'm saying that all people who believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories are kooks, but the biggest promoters of these theories are.
There's Alex Jones, whom constantly promotes conspiracy theories on his radio program, thinks everything bad that happens is a false flag attack, and just starts yelling and making incoherent rants.
There's Mike Adams, a promoter of pseudoscience and medical quackery (especially dangerous types of medical quackery), as well as other conspiracy theories.
Finally, there's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran, whom in addition to promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories, is also a holocaust denier, and is antisemitic.
They are of course not the only one's who promote the 9/11 conspiracy theories, but they are some of the biggest ones, and many of the other promoters of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are just as nutty (or possibly fraudulent) as these guys.
2. They contain a lot of bigotry.
Many conspiracy theories contain forms of bigotry within them, and 9/11 conspiracy theories are no different.
A lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are antisemitic, either indirectly by blaming several prominent Jews of being involved in the attacks, or blatantly antisemitic by blaming Israel, and that all the Jewish people who worked at the World Trade Center were in on it.
Besides the antisemitism within these conspiracy theories, these conspiracy theories are also racist as well, because many conspiracy theorists try to justify their belief that someone other than some people from the middle east had to have done this because people from the middle east (and Arab people in general) are not mentally capable of planning out and doing such a thing, or if they did, then they would have had to have had help from either white people or Jews, or have been allowed to do this.
1. They've all been debunked.
Every single 9/11 conspiracy theory has been debunked. From the "let it happen" theories, to the controlled demolition theory, to the really crazy no plane theories, not a single one has ever been proven to be true, or have been shown to hold up to any sort of evidence, or even hold up to logical arguments.
In fact they have all been debunked for years now, and some skeptics no longer even debate and debunk the people who make these claims, either because they have determined that those people are either to stupid to figure out that none of these conspiracy theories are true, or that they are to self deluded to be able to see that what they believe to be true is not, or that they are mentally ill, or they are a liar with an ulterior motive.
The fact is that all of the evidence surrounding the 9/11 attacks point in only one direction: Al-Qaida and the 19 members of that terrorist group who hijacked those planes and flew them into the sides of those buildings, and no one else.
So what about those conspiracy theories, and what are some of the biggest things about them that just stand out? Well, I've noticed a lot of things about them, and I've narrowed them down to five different things.
So here are five things I've noticed about 9/11 conspiracy theories:
5. There are a lot of them.
Probably one of the biggest problems with the 9/11 conspiracy theories is that there are more than one of them, instead of just one that the people who believe in and focus on.
For some people these can be confusing not only because they are all very different, but they are mostly not even connected to one another.
Not only can they be confusing, but they are also progressively more bizarre as well.
There is the let it happen theory, the controlled demolition theory, the drone plane theory, the nuke theory, and even the no plane/space lasers (which is so bizarre a person in the 9/11 Truth Movement debunked it).
I guess you say that the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a lot like the JFK assassination conspiracy theories in that not only are there more than one theory to what happened, but also because...
4. There is apparently more than one perpetrator.
Besides there just being more than one 9/11 conspiracy theory, according to these conspiracy theories, there is no solid conclusion on who the "real" perpetrator is.
Some people claim that it was Al-Qaida, it's just that those in the government allowed them to attack. Some people say that it was a collaboration between the government and Al-Qaida. Some people believe it was just the government, or Israel, or the Illuminati, or someone else entirely.
It just seems like none of these conspiracy theorists who claim that 9/11 was an inside job can agree upon who did it, and how they did it. Of course that isn't very surprising to me, because...
3. The biggest promoters of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are kooks.
Now I'm saying that all people who believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories are kooks, but the biggest promoters of these theories are.
There's Alex Jones, whom constantly promotes conspiracy theories on his radio program, thinks everything bad that happens is a false flag attack, and just starts yelling and making incoherent rants.
There's Mike Adams, a promoter of pseudoscience and medical quackery (especially dangerous types of medical quackery), as well as other conspiracy theories.
Finally, there's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran, whom in addition to promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories, is also a holocaust denier, and is antisemitic.
They are of course not the only one's who promote the 9/11 conspiracy theories, but they are some of the biggest ones, and many of the other promoters of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are just as nutty (or possibly fraudulent) as these guys.
2. They contain a lot of bigotry.
Many conspiracy theories contain forms of bigotry within them, and 9/11 conspiracy theories are no different.
A lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories are antisemitic, either indirectly by blaming several prominent Jews of being involved in the attacks, or blatantly antisemitic by blaming Israel, and that all the Jewish people who worked at the World Trade Center were in on it.
Besides the antisemitism within these conspiracy theories, these conspiracy theories are also racist as well, because many conspiracy theorists try to justify their belief that someone other than some people from the middle east had to have done this because people from the middle east (and Arab people in general) are not mentally capable of planning out and doing such a thing, or if they did, then they would have had to have had help from either white people or Jews, or have been allowed to do this.
1. They've all been debunked.
Every single 9/11 conspiracy theory has been debunked. From the "let it happen" theories, to the controlled demolition theory, to the really crazy no plane theories, not a single one has ever been proven to be true, or have been shown to hold up to any sort of evidence, or even hold up to logical arguments.
In fact they have all been debunked for years now, and some skeptics no longer even debate and debunk the people who make these claims, either because they have determined that those people are either to stupid to figure out that none of these conspiracy theories are true, or that they are to self deluded to be able to see that what they believe to be true is not, or that they are mentally ill, or they are a liar with an ulterior motive.
The fact is that all of the evidence surrounding the 9/11 attacks point in only one direction: Al-Qaida and the 19 members of that terrorist group who hijacked those planes and flew them into the sides of those buildings, and no one else.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Mike Adams 20 "predictions" for 2013: My Analysis
Mike Adams, best known for promoting conspiracy theories, quackery, and alternate medicine woo, has made 20 "predictions" for 2013.
Read his predictions
Here are his predictions, and my analysis of those predictions:
#1) The global debt collapse arrives
This has been being predicted for what, the past 5 years now? This is a soft prediction. It might happen, it might. Odds are it probably won't.
#2) Obama administration attempts to gut the Second Amendment
You mean like he has for the last 4 years? Assault weapons and clips that hold more then 10 rounds might get banned, but that's about it.
#3) Martial Law declared across America
Same as it was 2012, 2011, 2010...
#4) Extreme shortages of guns, ammo, magazines as their barter value skyrockets
Only if arms manufacturers stop making guns and ammo (which looks highly unlikely as business for them is up).
#5) Tactical weapon strikes target Iran
This is another soft prediction. Considering the political climate between Iran and the United States it may or may not happen.
#6) Massive false flag attack carried out in USA and blamed on patriots
Besides the fact that Mike has failed to prove that any false flag attacks have ever been carried out in the United States, so far there hasn't been a major terrorist attack in the US since 9/11/2001. In fact the last few times a lot of people got killed in an act of mass murdered, the murders were often committed by someone that was insane.
#7) DHS arms the TSA and begins insane abuses of Americans on roadway checkpoints
If that were to happen (and most likely it wouldn't) then state law makers would take action and basically kick the TSA out of their states (or severely restrict them). Besides, if the government intended to do this, then why did they not do this years ago?
#8) The rise of the Resistance: Secret resistance groups begin to form across America
People have been doing this in this country for the last 20 or 30 some odd years. This isn't something new, but it does seem to have been increasing for the last few years thanks in part to a bunch of anti-government propaganda being spread around by people like Mike Adams.
#9) Attacks on the First Amendment accelerate as government seizes websites
The only major website the government has seized in the last couple of years was Megaupload, and is because they hardly ever took down any copyrighted content. If the government wanted to seize and shut down sites like Infowars and NaturalNews, it would have done so by now.
#10) The rise of violent rhetoric among the population as disagreements turn to threats
In my opinion this is just simply Mike's attempt to further divide Americans based on political beliefs. And by the way, violent rhetoric and threats between two groups of opposing views have been going on for years. This is nothing new at all.
#11) Global government makes its move
Just like in 2012, 2011, 2010...
#12) Accelerated mainstream media attacks on patriots, preppers and veterans
Two words: Fox News... And shows like Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Venture, and Doomsday Preppers
#13) Disagreement with the government characterized a “mental disorder”
If that is true then I must be insane... The fact is that everyone disagrees with the government every now and then. It's highly doubtful the government would label everyone as being mentally ill.
#14) Continued rise in unemployment, food stamps, welfare as Obama accelerates deliberate destruction of U.S. economy
The economy is still pretty bad off, I admit that, but so far nothing President Obama has done has been something to intentionally accelerate the destruction of the US economy. This is just more propaganda.
#15) Criminalization of preparedness activities as government outlaws ammo storage of private citizens
Lots of people in the US go through with preparedness activities, many of them for practical reasons. It's highly doubtful the US government will actually arrest people for storing food and ammo.
#16) Riots in the streets, followed by Martial Law
That assumes massive riots will break out in the first place...
#17) Deliberate food shortages used as a weapon of government control
This is assuming that the private farms and businesses that own the majority of food production in this country would even allow this to happen.
#18) Weather becomes even more radicalized, with droughts, floods, freezes
This is basically another soft prediction. Based on the past weather events for the last few years, this might be the only thing that actually happens that Mike Adams is predicting. Of course the fact is that Mike cannot predict what the weather will be like several months into the future, and I know this because he is not a trained meteorologist, and plus the meteorologist at my local news station can't even predict the weather when it is happening!!! Why would Mike be able to make an accurate prediction on this himself?
#19) Solar weather gets nasty: Solar flares threaten communications
This could happen. This might not. This is another soft prediction, but it is based on calculations by many scientists who study the history of the sun and solar flares.
#20) You will be told the answer to all our problems is “MORE government!"
Lots of people say this. It's an opinion by some people, nothing more.
My conclusion to all of this is that this is just a bunch of fear mongering and the same old failed "predictions" and anti-government propaganda that has been for years claimed by conspiracy theorists like Mike Adams that will eventually happen, and it never does happen.
These predictions have been peppered with soft predictions that might or might not come true in order to make the other predictions/propaganda seem more credible.
The reality is that no one can predict the future, and I would be surprised if even one of the soft predictions were to happen.
Read his predictions
Here are his predictions, and my analysis of those predictions:
#1) The global debt collapse arrives
This has been being predicted for what, the past 5 years now? This is a soft prediction. It might happen, it might. Odds are it probably won't.
#2) Obama administration attempts to gut the Second Amendment
You mean like he has for the last 4 years? Assault weapons and clips that hold more then 10 rounds might get banned, but that's about it.
#3) Martial Law declared across America
Same as it was 2012, 2011, 2010...
#4) Extreme shortages of guns, ammo, magazines as their barter value skyrockets
Only if arms manufacturers stop making guns and ammo (which looks highly unlikely as business for them is up).
#5) Tactical weapon strikes target Iran
This is another soft prediction. Considering the political climate between Iran and the United States it may or may not happen.
#6) Massive false flag attack carried out in USA and blamed on patriots
Besides the fact that Mike has failed to prove that any false flag attacks have ever been carried out in the United States, so far there hasn't been a major terrorist attack in the US since 9/11/2001. In fact the last few times a lot of people got killed in an act of mass murdered, the murders were often committed by someone that was insane.
#7) DHS arms the TSA and begins insane abuses of Americans on roadway checkpoints
If that were to happen (and most likely it wouldn't) then state law makers would take action and basically kick the TSA out of their states (or severely restrict them). Besides, if the government intended to do this, then why did they not do this years ago?
#8) The rise of the Resistance: Secret resistance groups begin to form across America
People have been doing this in this country for the last 20 or 30 some odd years. This isn't something new, but it does seem to have been increasing for the last few years thanks in part to a bunch of anti-government propaganda being spread around by people like Mike Adams.
#9) Attacks on the First Amendment accelerate as government seizes websites
The only major website the government has seized in the last couple of years was Megaupload, and is because they hardly ever took down any copyrighted content. If the government wanted to seize and shut down sites like Infowars and NaturalNews, it would have done so by now.
#10) The rise of violent rhetoric among the population as disagreements turn to threats
In my opinion this is just simply Mike's attempt to further divide Americans based on political beliefs. And by the way, violent rhetoric and threats between two groups of opposing views have been going on for years. This is nothing new at all.
#11) Global government makes its move
Just like in 2012, 2011, 2010...
#12) Accelerated mainstream media attacks on patriots, preppers and veterans
Two words: Fox News... And shows like Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Venture, and Doomsday Preppers
#13) Disagreement with the government characterized a “mental disorder”
If that is true then I must be insane... The fact is that everyone disagrees with the government every now and then. It's highly doubtful the government would label everyone as being mentally ill.
#14) Continued rise in unemployment, food stamps, welfare as Obama accelerates deliberate destruction of U.S. economy
The economy is still pretty bad off, I admit that, but so far nothing President Obama has done has been something to intentionally accelerate the destruction of the US economy. This is just more propaganda.
#15) Criminalization of preparedness activities as government outlaws ammo storage of private citizens
Lots of people in the US go through with preparedness activities, many of them for practical reasons. It's highly doubtful the US government will actually arrest people for storing food and ammo.
#16) Riots in the streets, followed by Martial Law
That assumes massive riots will break out in the first place...
#17) Deliberate food shortages used as a weapon of government control
This is assuming that the private farms and businesses that own the majority of food production in this country would even allow this to happen.
#18) Weather becomes even more radicalized, with droughts, floods, freezes
This is basically another soft prediction. Based on the past weather events for the last few years, this might be the only thing that actually happens that Mike Adams is predicting. Of course the fact is that Mike cannot predict what the weather will be like several months into the future, and I know this because he is not a trained meteorologist, and plus the meteorologist at my local news station can't even predict the weather when it is happening!!! Why would Mike be able to make an accurate prediction on this himself?
#19) Solar weather gets nasty: Solar flares threaten communications
This could happen. This might not. This is another soft prediction, but it is based on calculations by many scientists who study the history of the sun and solar flares.
#20) You will be told the answer to all our problems is “MORE government!"
Lots of people say this. It's an opinion by some people, nothing more.
My conclusion to all of this is that this is just a bunch of fear mongering and the same old failed "predictions" and anti-government propaganda that has been for years claimed by conspiracy theorists like Mike Adams that will eventually happen, and it never does happen.
These predictions have been peppered with soft predictions that might or might not come true in order to make the other predictions/propaganda seem more credible.
The reality is that no one can predict the future, and I would be surprised if even one of the soft predictions were to happen.
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