Superb.

I particularly liked, re 9/11:

"It looks to me like it was filmed in miniature with a couple of modified milk crates, and aeroplanes made from toilet rolls."

I'd suggest a different headline though, to squeeze the maximum possible attention for the article.

Perhaps:

"Conspiracy Shocker: Molly Jones alive, living with Cookie in Burrigan!"

Anyway, that's the headline I used when I put a link to this article on reddit:

http://freeculture.reddit.com/info/l65w/comments

More, please....

David Jackmanson
http://www.letstakeover.blogspot.com

Couldn't We Live perfectly well without money?
http://www.lastsuperpower.net/docs/document.2005-01-21.2592308437

Onya Tony, deeply superficial and seriously silly article – only a truly laser-like intellect could have spotted it.

The conspirators have now added humour to their arsenal, and are using it to pervert our minds and destroy our ability to sheepishly swallow what’s presented to us in the media. Next, in order to really confuse us, they’ll be serving up leaders who invade countries for entirely unstated reasons, holy-roller politicians who cheat on their wives, and national marketing boards that under the guise of flogging their goods, are actually financing terrorism.

Thank heavens we’ve got you around to point out that all these things are mere deceptions, and the stories we’re told on telly are always right.

Thank you David. In a shameless bid to make my article appear more important than it is, I would like to add some, hopefully less silly and superficial, comments.

Firstly, none of the affairs Tony listed happened to be in the top 20 TV moments, the subject of my piece.

Secondly, though they may all possibly involve uncertainty, deception, lies, even cover-ups, as far as I'm aware no one is seriously suggesting that the Cornelia Rau incident, for instance, was deliberately orchestrated by a cult of lizard-people in order to bring down Amanda Vanstone.

Finally, I believe a conspiratorial bias can be as dangerous, and blind to the truth, as the apathy Tony so fears. Lindy Chamberlain, for instance, was analysed and scrutinised right up to the point of her imprisonment, still one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our country's history. I recall a murder case, where everything the accused did seemed to point to guilt, until the real killer was caught, and suddenly all his actions made perfect sense as those of an innocent man. Even Lindy's seeming coldness in the aftermath of Azaria's death, that played so much into the witch-hunters' hands, can be seen as the perfectly understandable behaviour of a woman in shock and denial herself.

GK Chesterton, along with many others, saw madness not as the loss of reason, but an excess of reason, in defence of a fundamental falsehood. Try arguing with a man who is convinced that he is Jesus, and you will lose; he will run rings around you because everything you say will fit his view. It's just that his fundamental belief is factually wrong.

I believe Tony is right about the analysis of facts. Thus, I have little time for the big conspiracy theories; they get far more air time than they deserve for the miniscule minority who subscribe to them. Now that this silly, superficial piece is out of my system, I would like to move on to more important topics.

Like my relentless campaign to uncover the truth about Molly Jones.