Thanks for popping up at the right time!

I, this time anyway, agree with Alien. We all have opinions and I respect the right of anyone to have an opinion no matter how much I might disagree with it. Banning someone is extreme and misses the whole point of having discussions.

Ad hominem attacks are weakness and just signal the attacker cannot debate the issue.

A poster who did not like at least one of my posts soon posted this thoughtful, intelligent, clear, and on topic demonstration of wit:

"ITT miserable old man fail trolling harder than his cock after his viagra knock off.

TIL vaccines dont cause downs, becaus its obv that old man has it."

I am amazed.

I did not direct my comment at anyone. A cheap shot is just that. Invoking Schizophrenia without the balls to direct allegation is not clever, it is intellectual cowardice. To use it and say "Oops" compounds the, frankly, mean post.

As for my own return cheap shot, I guess if the shoe fits. so be it.

I think conspiracy theories are usually a bit nutty and, oddly, very trusting in information which usually insists on not trusting the conspirators. If that doesn't make sense, you got it.

Nutty ideas and beliefs abound but it doesn't follow the proponents are nuts, delusional or Schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a serious disease only a mean, nasty, idiot would be careless tossing it out for effect. Just saying. My opinion only. No offense.

HFCAMPO: "Ignorant people call it a Conspiracy Theory while intelligent people call it reality or truth." Isn't this statement a bit self serving. While I will use the term "Conspiracy Theory" because it is readily understood, I think a lot of it is conjecture based on halfassed thinking, rumor, heavy reliance on unverifiable rantings of suspect third parties is, in my humble neither intelligentnor reality and very far from being a truth. You are, in my opinion, applying a religious like fervor to something that is not verifiable. When you label me ignorant, you are admitting you cannot substantiate so are left with attacking those that don't adhere to your beliefs.

Another example is the delusion one is qualified to bandy the term schizophrenia around when armed with little more than google and cut and paste skills.