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Originally Posted by eeyore  either way i'm not going to waste any more of my time debating the issue further |
It's a bit like 'conspiracy theorists':
They feel that they are privy to Special Knowledge, known only to those few that have the wisdom and intellectual powers to understand and appreciate it. They feel it sets them apart from the common herd - and they interpret 'apart' as being above. Science professionals and Nobel Peace Prize winners are too intellectually weak and crippled to understand the sheer brilliance of their ideas. The knowledge is so advanced and potentially civilisation changing, that there is a conspiracy of politicians and other power wielders to suppress it.
The amusing thing is that they gainsay any proven and well put scientific argument, with an argument that carries as little weight as (as I've mentioned before): 'Yeahbut, my mate puts this special powder in a cup of water and his Cortina will run for a hundred miles on it'!
Jim