And for anybody wondering about Chalie Hebdo, the guys at Metabunk do a good job debunking conspiracy claims in this thread : https://www.metabunk.org/threads/charlie-hebdo-conspiracy-theories-ignore-or-address.5476/
Wise words :
Wise words :
These claims, of course, are specious. Just shoehorned cherry-picked confirmation bias by people who have already decided that everything is fake, and so everything they see is evidence of that fakery. Many of their claims have been examined at length, here and on many other sites, and have been shown to be either straightforward bunk (errors and lies), or meaningless subjective speculation and interpretations.
They hide under the excuse of "I'm just asking questions", and claim they are performing a legitimate role of fact-checking the mainstream media - something, they say, which you could not possibly object to. This excuse has the ring of truth about it, as fact-checking is indeed an honorable pursuit and errors in the media should be exposed and corrected. But that's not what they are doing.
They are finding ordinary and expected inconsistencies in the reporting of chaotic events. They are offering their own subjective interpretations of events as alternative evidence. They latch on to the most trivial of coincidences (with their mantra of "there are no coincidences") as evidence of a conspiracy. Two women with the same haircut is evidence that they are the same woman, and hence an actor, and hence everything is fake. It's self-reinforcing confirmation bias taken to an extreme. It does not seem worthy of response.
I won't go that far personally but I think conspiracy theorists are believers. Believers of official/mainstream truth being necessarily wrong by nature. And by believing so, no reasoning can convince them otherwise.These people are mentally ill. When you realize this, you begin to approach them differently.
Eventually they trip over their own fabrications. I had one dude tell me islamist terrorists didn't exist while telling me the CIA was trying to hide the fact that they tortured Islamic terrorists. I shyt you not.
One cat on here said the Sandy Hook shooting was a false flag to take away guns to some one like me, who has bought weapons and ammo since that shooting![]()




