Originally Posted by bliddel

I will confess that certain events have caused me to have a certain distrust of our federal government. While conspiracy theories are indeed often either amusing or entertaining, and sometimes intriguing, I don't think it appropriate to summarily label and dismiss every conspiracy theory just because it fits the label. I see myself as sometimes more of a scientist than an engineer. I tend to believe what the engineering manual says, but I remain open to the notion that new information could (at least theoretically) come to light. I don't see any new information coming to light here, in part because of the many who seem willing or eager to exclude new information unless it is "provable beyond reasonable doubt". On the other hand, neither is it the burden of the disbeliever to disprove every crackpot theory beyond reasonable doubt. If it were, my name might be Russel, and I might have a teapot in solar orbit.