[lbo-talk] Re: antidemocratic

martin mschiller at pobox.com
Wed Oct 20 15:01:04 PDT 2004


Probably much easier to attribute climate change to disruption of the magnetic flow of the earths crust due to underground nuclear tests - rather than attributing underground testing to a concern for the environment by the AEC.

Martin

On Oct 20, 2004, at 2:13 PM, Turbulo at aol.com wrote:


> The tendency of conspiracy theorists to overestimate the ability of
> those in power to control events (in Doug's example, Al D'Amato) is
> similar, I think, to the religious impulse. Isn't it easier to
> understand crop failure by attributing it to a wrathful god than to
> study climatic conditions?



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