British SF writer...

...Ken McLeod has some interesting things to say about conspiracy theories on his blog. I strongly disagree that Lee Harvey Oswald benefitted from the JFK assassination--if he wanted credit, why did he consistently deny doing it?--but that's a quibble.



Here's a nice snip: "Hierarchy was invented to regulate human relations with imaginary beings, and it still performs that function quite admirably. In the shadow of that pyramid, conspiracy theories are little grassy knolls."