...Exposes us to many nutcases who really would think like that.

You may think I'm dense cause I don't always get your humour, I may think your dense cause you don't get my points.

Seriously before the internet, I never thought that anyone really thought the moonlanding was faked, that Hitler was a woman, etc., etc. But I've met people online who believe stuff is just that wacky. Luckily my education into semi-professional skepticism at alt.folklore.urban has stood me in good stead.

But even that has taken a turn for the worse. There are now on snopes.com some items marked true that neither David or Barabar believe to be true. Its an attempt at irony, but there have been people who have quoted these pages as gospel.

James