re: #435 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Hitchens was totally right that having fringe people saying whacko stuff is useful to society because it requires us to check our bullshit. The Kennedy assassination, for example, isn’t untrue because it’s unthinkable that people would conspire to kill the president, but just because the actual story doesn’t match up with a conspiracy and multiple shooters.

It’s when the conspiracies and untruths mainstream that we get trouble. Like the belief that women aren’t as smart or capable as men, that bullshit was mainstream for like, so long, man.

Is it considered ironic that Hitchens said the bolded, and then went to his grave convinced Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks?