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Originally posted by MattO
Even if good evidence starts stacking up that there was any kind of fraud or tampering, labels of "Conspiracy Theorist" will be thrown around and whomever is trying to prove anything will risk being made a fool of. Too many wack jobs from the fringes have tainted current thought to the point that any kind of investigative activity is automatically perceived to be wearing a tinfoil hat.
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I agree to a point... but I'd submit that this is a chicken or the egg problem. Which came first - the label or the wacko? There was a time when anyone who said the goverment tested LSD on American soldiers was called a 'tin foil hatter'. FOIA later proved it to be true.
You should read up some time on Woodward and Bernstein, and some of the names they were called when they were 'nixon hunting.'
The solution is to ignore the need to get broad public acceptance for an idea, and simply pursue the evidence. If it bears out, it does. If it doesn't, it doesn't.