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Lurks Often

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17. Conspiracy theorists should be ignored or mocked

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Nov 2, 2015, 10:58 AM

Nov 2015

Because they will rationalize away fact that conflicts with what they believe. While CT's have been around for a long time, the internet has made things worse by giving them a wider audience.

In the case of Sandy Hook, in the rush to be the first with "breaking news", the initial reporting by the media was sloppy and in instances contradictory. Combine that with the State of Connecticut's refusal to release the police report on what happened and you have plenty for the CT's to work with. It took a lawsuit by the Hartford Courant and a judge to get the police report released and it was released about 2 weeks before the one year anniversary of the shooting.

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