Shiny Objects You Will Soon Be Seeing

[jberryhill]

20. Me too

The reason I got really into UFO's as a kid was because I wanted to know that ET's were zooming all over the galaxy, visiting us, and having their remarkable abilities covered up by government bureaucrats.

I read all kinds of conspiracy theory stuff and "amazing things they don't want you to know". It drives my wife nuts that I watch every episode of Ancient Aliens. It's a great show, goes to cool places, and has beautiful videography of those places.

"I think most people here are smart enough to know the difference between a fact and a rumour."

I think so too. But the types of stunts in the OP are not "rumor". They are "fact" when they happen, but they rely on people's ignorance to hype the nub of fact into something that it is not.

I treat things I "want to believe" with more skepticism than not, because I have to recognize that "wanting to believe" something is true leads to a built-in bias against latching onto some bullshit.