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BBC Attack Piece Promotes Cottage Industry Of Debunkers
Self professed "skeptics" claim they
promote critical thinking while doing the exact opposite
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The BBC cannot resist attacking anyone who questions the establishment
line and counters mainstream accounts of events, especially
if they make up part of the new and exciting alternative media
that is contributing to the corporation's ongoing fossilization.
That is why in a
feature article today, the corporation is promoting
a group of "scientists and skeptics" whose declared
mission is to vigorously debunk those who are questioning the
"accepted versions" of events.
"While many people find them harmless fun,
others believe there is a darker truth - that conspiracy theories
are rewriting history, warping the present and altering the
future. Enough is enough they say - it's time to fight back."
the report reads.
The article centres around the "non profit"
James
Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), which charges
£175 a ticket to its conferences, events that equate to
little more than rabid debunking fests on everything from 9/11
truth to research claiming mercury containing vaccinations are
harmful.
In a deliberate Orwellian warping of language,
JREF attendees are described as "skeptics" who are
promoting critical thinking":
"...scientists, writers and comedians target
conspiracy theories - and their close cousins pseudoscience
and medical quackery - in front of an audience loosely allied
by their desire for more rational, critical thinking."
the report states.
"...some delegates prefer to call themselves
rationalists, free thinkers or Brights. Out there in the audience
is the next generation of bloggers and media professionals,"
[JREF president Dr Phil] Plait says.
In what plain of reality is it considered "free
thinking" to debunk and shut down alternative theories
and questions in favour of a recieved reality?
Luminaries and speakers at the recent conference
in London, titled The Amazing Meeting (TAM), included Glenn
Hill, the son of someone who claimed to have taken pictures
of fairies at the bottom of their garden, but later admitted
it was a hoax.
The BBC report on JREF brazenly lumps in questions
over the 9/11 attacks with moon landing conspiracies and individuals
who claim to have paranormal spoon-bending powers.
It highlights the fact that those who have questioned
and challenged the findings of the 9/11 commission have had
a "massive impact", however, the tone of the piece
suggests this is thoroughly negative and even dangerous.
Presumably the 9/11 commissioners themselves should
be a target for the JREF debunkers, given that six of the ten
have openly questioned the Commission's findings and described
the whole thing as a whitewash.
Perhaps the same goes for the majority
of the 9/11 victims’ family members, who
also have unanswered questions regarding the attacks, according
to the head of the biggest 9/11 families group.
JREF was officially established in 1996 to "help
debunk paranormal and pseudoscientific claims". How ironic
it is then that the foundation seemingly supports the pseudoscientific
claim that jet fuel, and office fires in the case of of World
Trade Center 7, can burn at temperatures hot enough to cause
multi-story steel framed structures to collapse and disintegrate
at free fall rate.
JREF has comedians and a man who pretended to
have a picture of fairies at its conferences, the 9/11 truth
movement has heard from hundreds of architects, engineers and
physics professors. How telling it is that the BBC paints up
JREF as the credible organisation, while the 9/11 truth movement
is reduced to the level of racist internet-dwelling freaks.
The ever present anti-semite smear against the
9/11 truth movement is present, tick that prerequisite off the
list. Apparently British investigative journalist Jon Ronson
posted a comment on a 9/11 truth forum and was, according to
the BBC, "abused and ridiculed because he is Jewish".
Demonization of the internet is there too, with
the following lazy smear:
"Conspiracy theorists have used the internet
to co-ordinate increasingly slick attacks on the accepted versions
of events... Conspiracy theories predate the internet but the
web has provided a fast, accessible platform for groups to unite,
gather research and disseminate information without even meeting
or leaving their houses."
Check off another cliched attack.
The piece also intimates that a belief in a conspiracy
regarding the assassination of JFK is something to be classed
as kooky or revisionist. A reader comment nails the ridiculousness
of such a claim:
So I guess you're also including the "House
Select Committee on Assassinations" who in 1970 concluded
that "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence
available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably
assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee was
unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy."
This was a three-year investigation carried out carried out
by the US Government. Those loony conspiracy nuts.
If the BBC and JREF are trying to convince the
general public to believe something different, they have a great
deal of work to do, given that some forty years later 7 in 10
stark raving mad kooks believe the assassination was the result
of a nefarious plot, not the act of a lone killer.
Another reader comment on the BBC piece injects
some common sense into an otherwise blithering mess of an article:
Some conspiracy theorists are plain nuts, but
the ability and right to question what is commonly taught
is extremely important. To assert that all conspiracy theories
are bunk is the same as saying "believe what you are
told". Surely this is dangerous thinking?
The BBC has routinely attacked the 9/11 truth
movement and over the past few years has produced no less than
four
television hit pieces laden with bias and emotional
manipulation in an attempt to debunk legitimate questions that
remain unanswered.
The corporation has also hacked its way through
research into the 7/7
London bombings that has raised concerning questions
in the vacuum that exists due to the lack of any real investigation
into the attacks.
In addition the BBC
has taken to debunking any deviations from the
official version of events surrounding Lockerbie, The Oklahoma
City Bombing, and the deaths of Dr David Kelly and Princess
Diana.
All of these shows have been backdropped with
so called "experts", including the director of The
X-Files, forcing ludicrous, cringe-worthy and cliched psychobabble
down the throats of viewers to the effect of "the conspiracy
theorists just want to believe that there is a big evil force,
that they have no power to resist, manipulating and controlling
everything."
We have attempted to engage the makers of these
programs directly. Alex Jones himself has appeared in many of
them and has had their producers and creators on his show as
guests. Each time they have had very little to contribute and
have actively
shown themselves to be completely uninformed on
the subjects they have supposedly spent months researching.
Trust in the BBC went down the toilet bowl a long
time ago. The corporation was effectively castrated by the government
following its
role in the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction debacle
that preceded the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
After the Blair government appointee Lord Hutton
astonishingly exonerated the government of any wrong doing over
the affair, the Director
General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, was forced to quit.
The corporation was also made to issue a groveling apology for
daring to act like an independent journalistic source when it
ran a story claiming that the government had "sexed up"
its Iraq weapons dossier with unreliable intelligence.
Greg Dyke has since
spoken of a "Westminster conspiracy",
on the part of the elite political class and the BBC, that is
actively breaking down democracy in Britain. But then again
I guess he is just one of the loony internet-dwelling spoon-bending
conspiracy theorists that the BBC is proud to announce should
be countered by the "critical thinkers" of the James
Randi Educational Foundation.
I guess we should simply trust a giant media corporation
that is directly subsidized by the government and feeds off
enforced tax payer license fees to deliver our "critical
thinking" for us.
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