(April 10, 2016 at 8:44 am)robvalue Wrote: Not for the people claiming them, it seems!
This is a neat idea, but I see what Goosebump is saying. It's rather problematic, in that moving stuff there is basically calling the author a nut; and nuts don't generally consider themselves nuts so wouldn't post it there. So it might only get used in a humorous way.
I ran into my first conspiracy theory when I was fourteen. A long-time neighbor heard I was reading on WWII and asked me to do him a favor. He had bought the entire 40 volume set of the Congressional Investigation Into The Attack On Pearl Harbor and he was certain "the smoking gun is in there somewhere." The material was a navalist's wet dream so I agreed to read them. Took four years and at the end I told him there was no smoking gun to be found. He took the news well, "I'm sure it's out there somewhere, just gotta find it."
Later I found out he claimed to be a veteran, having served with George Washington at Valley Forge.
