re: #130 Summer

I’ve had that response at times too, but the fact is that it almost never changes their minds.

Again: it does happen sometimes, it just happens to be exceedingly rare. But really I’m talking about true believers and not just the regular uninformed masses out there. I mean people who go to tea parties regularly, blog about their conspiracies, yell about them, and are confrontational about them.

The moon hoax girl was more of a casual believer. I think you’re right about the hard-core believers though, they desperately need to believe in their theories. This is really a mental health issue in many cases, but its usefullness to political axe-grinders and power-seekers probably keeps it from being fully addressed as such.