This is the original letter I sent to the Fortean Times, before it was edited:
Regarding the article of the Random Dictionary of theDamned [223:51-3].
The Hierophant's Apprentice is a blithering idiot.
He uses the usual "sceptic"'s trick or presuming aconspiracy (or in this case all conspiracies) untrueand using psychobabble instead of rational argument,as "sympathetic" writers always do. Treating, in otherwords, the questioning of authority as a psychologicaldisorder instead of a legitimate opinion. The appealto authority as sacrament rather than fallacy. Like the media dealing with the Olsens in Jon Ronson's goatbook. It is a disconfirmation bias.
The official position is obviously more weighty to youthan evidence, but here are three confirmed conspiracy"theories" anyway, the McMartin preschool was found byan archaeologist ot be riddled with man-made tunnels,a jury found that Martin Luther King was killed by aconspiracy of government agencies and nothing need besaid beyond the bare words "Operation Gladio".
Beyond that he implies that conspiracy theories arelikely to be suffering "incipient schizonphrenia" andapplies his disconfirmation bias to the hearing ofvoices in the head. Dr Smirnoff long ago proved thatit is possible to beam voices into a human mind thatdon't belong there, the technology is available, butlet's not let the facts get in the way, eh?
He trots out the deluded idea that it's somehowcomforting that Bush, rather than a mad Arab, attackedthe WTC (doesn't comfort me, I must say, it is ratheralarming ("The individual is handicapped by comingface to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannotbelieve it exists." -- J. Edgar Hoover)).
He says the US government is "democratically accountable". The man needs psychological help.
I hope I need say nothing of the fascist apologetical quote that ends his article.
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