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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
To the people who are dismissive of the issues surrounding David Kelly's death, have you actually read in to it?
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If you mean people who dismiss the conspiracy theories then count me in. And yes I have read a lot about it. I agree with David Aaronovitch:
"Suicide is very unsatisfactory and in that sense - the sense in which there is a narrative, a story that improves upon reality - conspiracism is not unlike religious belief. Lewis Wolpert speculated that our evolutionary development of tool-making may have required the habit of causality, which we necessarily extended to the question of why we existed. Hence the universality of religious belief. This principle could extend, too, to the need to construct better stories than reality apparently furnishes."
People waste too much time ignoring the real issues (perhaps they are too
real and too complicated and too
boring) and concentrate instead on a story which they find much more satisfying, regardless of the
truth.