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http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... dChannel=0

Overall, a good article.

Death threats really give people credibility, don't they? Yeah, you threaten my kids, I'm gonna think you're smarter than I am, more respectable, etc. . .

I totally understand parents looking for answers, but what I do not understand is them thinking there children have some sort of disease, we all want whats best for our children and guess our thoughts should always be with the child's best interest at mind, unfortunatelly as with many misunderstood differences, parents feel let down and want some stereo type child, that does not exists anyway, that special unique individual is often right in front of them!

Americans have always been very conspiracy minded. Only Arabs are more so. If something seems "odd", Americans will invent a conspiracy to explain it, and the more intricate and improbable the conspiracy the better. Even worse, the conspiracy theory never collapses under its own weight and idiocy, but only gains strength. A majority of Americans believe that their government is hiding the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial visitation, and that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a byzantine conspiracy, although they can't agree on who did it.

Smaller numbers believe in the existence of the "Illuminati" or a similar group, and that this group controls the world and has plotted for millenia to do...well they can't agree on what this group's goal is, but it usually has to do with establishing a totalitarian state, one where the individual will have all independent thinking capability robbed from him and be turned into a robot.

Americans are very worried that technology will allow their rulers to in effect turn off the human brain and make them into zombies. Science fiction movies in which the populace has been turned into zombies and a few lonely souls have escaped to fight on are eternally popular here. The idea of a zombie, a carbon robot, actually comes from West Africa via the Caribbean, but it has an unbelievable hold on the popular imagination. A zombie is not possessed by a demon, he has had his brain turned off and is not capable of thinking for himself. This concept is not found in Europe or in Australia, unless it has been imported there via America.

The Illuminati really did exist at one point. They were scientists fighting censorship from the RC Church in the Renaissance. I think they disbanded when they won that fight. They disbanded, anyways. Long gone.

That's interesting about Americans and conspiracies. I just figured it was because people were bored and wanted to put themselves on a roller-coaster ride, but perhaps there's more to it.