From the monthly archives: April 2012
A version of this article appeared in The Commentator May 6, 2012.
Most arguments against open-ended population growth are derivatives of the argument from personal incredulity: I cannot imagine how it could be so, therefore it cannot be. Could the earth [...]
Using the time-tested 7 Steps to Building Your Own Conspiracy Theory, we constructed our alternative explanation for the sinking of the Titanic.
The RMS Titanic sank at 2 a.m. on April 15, 1912, after allegedly hitting an iceberg on 4/14. The governments of the United States and Great Britain have officially closed their investigations into the [...]
As I recently learned, it is a bad idea to joke about conspiracies. They are serious business to some people. But if you are interested in inventing your own conspiracy theory for fun or profit, there is a time-tested formula:
Pick bad thing X that happened (it doesn’t matter what or when). Postulate a conspiracy [...]
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Nick Merrill was asleep in his Manhattan apartment only blocks from the World Trade Center. He never heard the planes hit the towers, and he didn’t hear them fall. When his roommate finally woke him up and told him, Merrill thought he was joking until he saw what [...]
“If… we see an account given of such miracle by the person who said he saw it, it raises a question in the mind very easily decided, which is, is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have [...]
One feature of conspiracy theorists is that they always try to poke holes without filling any in. 9/11 Truthers, for example, will go to great lengths to attempt to show some problem with the “official” story, but never explain the hundreds of other facts [...]
Religion is just one giant conspiracy story. There are good and evil forces behind everything, not just a few major political events. Unseen angels are manipulating your eyes when you find your car keys–unseen devils are manipulating your thoughts when you want to cheat on your wife. In this way, the religious can put the [...]
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