In a time when we can rejoice in the killing of Osama Bin Laden, one wonders whether a new conspiracy theory will arise.
That theory would be that Osama Bin Laden is still alive, that Barack Obama has lied to us, and that all he is trying to do is calm the public mood about the War On Terror, and help his own re-election efforts in 2012.
The conspiracy theorists could argue that the body of Osama Bin Laden being buried at sea could be a ruse, and that even if a photo of the dead Osama is released, with his face destroyed by a shot in the left eye, that it will be claimed that it is not Osama. The fact that DNA evidence will be claimed as proof will likely be dismissed as false, as well.
Do not be surprised at the above scenario, but the answer is, as always, to ignore the conspiracy theories, and leave it to the loonies who hate our President and do not care about the damage they do to national unity by spreading such gossip as fact!
Show me the DNA Test and the body and I will gladly believe that this man is dead.
Well no matter what Obama does the lunatic fringe is going to have some kind of conspiracy theory. Witness the rights reaction to the birth certificate. Beside we have this:
In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation evenstronger.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/201