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glenn beck speaking of conspiracy theories as saying that his theory that
will so heat for the last few days he's been dedicating his show to making the
case that the saudi national who was injured in the boston marathon bombing
was originally taken into custody as a suspect
and that he was designated a terrorist but then there was like a high-ranking
meeting between u_s_ and saudi officials and some deal with structured it's all
part of some conspiracy so glenn beck is saying and i want you to pay very
careful attention to this ladies and gentlemen
this statement this short
thirty second statement from going back
a pain in my eyes is
fundamental misunderstanding
that so many conspiracy theorists hold ok soo listen very carefully glenn beck
saying that
the burden of proof
is on the government
to disprove
his conspiracy theory this is this is the central thing willis if we are told
to discuss anything about conspiracy theories
and theorists
it is this issue of the burden of proof listen to glenn beck here
the burden of proof
is on the federal government
and so far they are not protected
one shred of evidence that refutes
what the blaze has reported not one
all we have
is janet napolitano denying it
and that apparently is enough for the
the global resources of the media at one of them
biggest events in our nation's history
all its fine order or the government said no
okay then it's now
all right so that that's analyze this that the burden of
is on
the government this is the fundamental problem with conspiracy theories the
burden of proof
is not
on whoever the conspiracy theorist would like to refute
their ideas
the burden of proof is on
the person
proposing the idea this is the key thing is very difficult in many cases to prove
a negative that's why no matter how many debunking so happen very often the
conspiracy theories will say you've been up
proven to me
that this is impossible
that's not the burden of proof the burden of proof is on the theorist
and if you can just by looking at simple evidence shows that
their theory is not strong
the burden of proof is on the theorist
and that is what going back in so many others are missing
right it's no different for me sitting here in saying
i believe it or bomb a is actually uh... eight tungsten light bulb right and i i
do
we've read that he has a dr tungsten labels don't need doctors
and we've also seen him evening and tungsten light bulbs dhoni and then you
say
you've not
proven to me that those weren't doctored video so therefore you must be right now
hold on a second the burden of proof is on louis to prove
that president obama is a tungsten light bulb or whatever it is right
i'm saying whatever whatever evidence you ever seen a vote bomber has been
computer graphics easy i holograms
a stunt double a fake person the real president obama is attached to my bald
sitting in the oval office you know that you bring up another good point which is
that these conspiracy theorists and theories sort of rest on this
basic philosophical idea of how you obtained knowledge like
negotiate your way down when you're arguing with these people and use it
will look there's this piece of evidence which clearly shows this and they say
i don't think it clearly shows that have you ever seen that piece of evidence
well no i sighed in the new york times article in the washington post on c_n_n_
or how do you know they didn't doctor who did you actually personally so it
could be a goes to a point where if you didn't physically
see the physical evidence yourself we have to discount as evidence but what's
hilarious is that then you say to those fears well you're basing all of this
stuff on pictures you found on the internet like
couldn't those have been dot but at least into them because then they say
bill that's the doubt that we all have about it middle of the only with
understanding of the tooth two concepts people you'd understand burden of proof
and what is at its end and leave it at that