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His supporters would also do well checking the web for a comprehensive list of logical fallacies. The theories, if you can even call those diatribes that, are full of them. One additional thing you'll notice is that there is never one shred of hard evidence of those alleged conspiracies, only mountains of facts, supposedly unanswered questions, "witness reports" and tons of various trivia, but never ever evidence of conspiracy which is what these "theories" seek to prove. Evidently, the conspiracy of uncounted, invisible evil men is so fiendishly clever that it is able to hide all the evidence of its existence.

Here is an interesting exercise for you to perform:

Step 1. As you suggested, search the web for a comprehensive list of logical fallacies.

Step 2. Apply the logical fallacies to the Warren Commission Report.

Step 3. Boiled crow may be better tasting than baked crow. The question is, will you eat it after doing Step 2?

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Kennedy assasination? Yawn! Old hat. I'm sure you've read and debunked "Case Closed : Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK" by Gerald Posner. The problem with you conspiracy theorists, I noticed, is that you never respond to the debunking of your theories or parts of your theories. It's not in your program. You got your catechism, your dogma and you won't budge, you won't adjust. You haven't looked at the Lennon assasination conspiracy, have you, and you won't. It's awfully uncomfortable to see your methods, your thinking patterns on display in a certifiable fool, is it? After reading these theories for years and years, I'm interested more in the form than in the content, and the form reveals to me more about the psychological state of the individuals who cling to this silliness and make it their life's passion, than about the sinister, invisible men supposedly behind all the evil in the world.

Step 1. As you suggested, search the web for a comprehensive list of logical fallacies.

Step 2. Apply the logical fallacies to the Warren Commission Report.

In other words, (you'll correct this, I'm sure) since there are logical fallacies in the Warren Report, there was a conspiracy to assasinate JFK?!

And that would be the fallacy defined below, no?

"Complex Question

Definition:

Two otherwise unrelated points are conjoined and treated as a single proposition. The reader is expected to accept or reject both together, when in reality one is acceptable while the other is not. A complex question is an illegitimate use of the "and" operator."