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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (749479)	9/18/2006 11:29:11 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

Re: "Did I type, or say, "conspiracy theory"? No you didn't, Haqi. I'm the one who used the term. (But I shouldn't have put single 'quotes' around it. I was just trying to emphasize the question, but that use was confusing.) You are right to complain. (Never-the-less though... I STILL believe that thinking all polls are actually meant to influence people to believe in a certain desired way, or believe in certain desired things [like ADVERTIZING is], IS the very definition of a 'conspiracy theory'. I don't believe that it's rational to think that corporations would be spending the hundreds of millions or billions that they do every year on market research if they didn't believe they were getting useful intel about consumers. Same for politicians, or anyone else - like the purely academic-oriented researchers we were talking about here.)