My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists.

[DanTex]

31. I didn't mean to imply that anyone who believes in a conspiracy was a nut.

Just that the authors that present the pro-conspiracy case tend to be on the nutty side. The idea being that if there were any legitimate evidence, then I should be able to find a well-reasoned and credible presentation of this evidence.

As far as science getting overturned, this is partially true, but not really relevant. The possibility that a whole new trove of evidence will overturn the present understanding of the assassination isn't reason to deny what the present evidence clearly demonstrates, anymore than the fact that evolution might be disproved by some future finding is a reason to believe creationism.

What you are describing is a sort of "grand conspiracy" which is immune to any kind of evidence at all, because the rebuttal to any and all evidence is simply to claim that it could have been faked by the conspirators. And, of course, that's always possible, in the same way that it's possible that the moon landing was also faked, just not very likely. But the fact that an evidence-free conspiracy is essentially the only kind that is possible in these cases is pretty telling IMO about the strength of the evidence supporting the single gunman theory.