[mlo]

I confess that I never really approached the subject with an open mind.

I actually believed a conspiracy DID probably occur. Until I began really reading up on it after the acoustics issue was raised again last year. My present position was not arrived at arbitrarily, or based on some predisposition.

[general_re]

My present position was not arrived at arbitrarily, or based on some predisposition.

Precisely why your opinions are valuable. If you can walk in thinking that a conspiracy is likely, and walk out thinking that it's not likely at all, then the evidence must have been pretty compelling ;)

[SoCal Pubbie]

I too was once convinced that there had to be a conspiracy. After reading Best Evidence, I became a voracious consumer of any information I could find, starting with Rush to Judgement. I finally realized that not all the competing theories could be true, and after reading a bit more understood that the truth was known from day one.