Conspiracy theories revisited

One of Real Street’s regular commentators, Ian Pattinson, has tried demolishing the arguments I made on my recent post about various conspiracy theories by posting his thoughts on his own blog.
I left a reply there, but like he says about his comments, he didn’t want to waste them on someone else’s blog!
Ian seems to have [...]

Conspiracy theories

I left a long comment on Leg-iron’s post, The Tory vote-losing technique, which I am reproducing here. He is talking about the modern phenomenon of shouting down your opponents and calling them names rather than engaging them in intelligent dialogue. He asks whether those, like climate change ‘atheists’ and those warning about mass immigration, were [...]