[lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26

[martin]

And I was suggesting that the use of 'serious scholar' and 'phonomenon 
of conspiracy thinking' seemed dismissive in reference to the 
employment of occam's razor to what few facts are available and 
verifiable.

Martin

On May 27, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:


> I understand some people find truth in casting the I Ching, and if they
> take it seriously, I respect their right to do so. But when people take
> gossip and claim it is fact, it lacks the spiritual integrity of the I
> Ching, and it lacks the intellectual integrity of actual research.
>
> When people claim to be progressive, and spread rumor and myth as fact,
> then I argue that conspiracy theory is a knife in the back of
> dialectical materialism.