PDX Dopesmoker
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A thread about the psychology of conspiracies devolves into a conspiracy theory thread. Maybe I'm just high but that's pretty fucking funny.
The blatantly false idea that "conspiracy theorist" is a synonym for insanity was popularized in the mainstream press as a way to explain away seeming inconsistencies in the news around the same time that people in the government were publishing their findings about the JFK assassination. The Department of Justice employs a small army of conspiracy theorists called prosecutors, they charge people with conspiracy and jail them for it every day, so conspiracies are clearly very real according to the government mouthpieces at the Department of Justice, so reflexively questioning the sanity of people who speculate about conspiracies is obviously irrational behavior.
A lot of the vagueness in the details about the JFK assassination is fallout from the botched autopsy performed by J Thorton Boswell, who was then in the navy, but later established himself privately as boss of a very profitable regional monopoly on pathology services in northern Virginia. The doctor who later took over Boswell's position as president of the pathology group is an absolute expert on everything having to do with the JFK assassination, Boswell & the autopsy and is happy to talk about it, his contact information is here:
http://www.hipaaspace.com/medical_b...provider_identifier/codes/npi_1053311357.aspx
Dr. Boswell's only public claim to fame was the JKF autopsy failure, but he was extremely successful in private practice. Thats the type of logical discontinuity which tends to make some people wonder whats going on, Boswell proved himself as a dumb doctor so he should've stayed dumb. A lot of human cognitive ability is the result of pattern recognition, so when something doesn't fit a normal pattern, people will tend to notice, thats the psychology angle. So Dr. too-dumb-to-do-an-autopsy should've also been too dumb to establish an impressive private business empire, but he wasn't. Anyone want to try and guess why? If you do then you're a "conspiracy theorist". If you want to dial the phone number in that link instead of guessing then you're a researcher, but its like 4am and nobody would pick up the phone if you called right now. Plenty of time to speculate while you wait, if you're one of those subterfuge speculationists.