h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Surley with the wealth of infomatioan and the ever increasing level of education available today (even though it seems that common sence seems to becoming extinct) we can finally put and end to conspiracies (or at the very least conspiracy buffs) before this century is done. I mean who cares? if it is a big government conspiracy,and they are watching us, and they have done all these amazing and improbable things, then surely as soon as they realised you had a inkling of what was really going on, they would have "dissapeared" you. And if there is some huge conspiracy going on, did it ever occur to you that there may be some good reason why they are doing what they are doing? even if there isnt, surely there are more important things to worry about in life like poverty and war, or closer to home family and freinds?

Fat chance, although I agree completely. "Occams Razor", the theory that the simplest and most obvious solution is usually the right one, should be made compulsory learning in schools, rather than listening to all these doobies and their theories of the moon as a giant spaceship, and strange alien experiments in American deserts etc.

A great book on this subject is Carl Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" - also compulsory reading at the end of the Millennium.