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Watts Up With That, one of the web's most anti-scientific blogs

If you suspect someone of ASS (Anti-Science Syndrome), look for the repeated use of the following phrases:

* Medieval Warm Period
* Hockey Stick
* Michael Mann
* The climate is always changing
* Alarmist
* Hoax
* Temperature rises precede rises in carbon dioxide
* Pacific Decadal Oscillation
* Water vapor
* Sunspots
* Cosmic rays
* Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark
* Ice Age was predicted in the 1970s
* Global cooling

In a culture consumed by compelling, daily conspiracies the Web is the buzzing, twitching engine of it all. And despite the hearty efforts of the professional debunkers, the Internet echo chamber has a way of giving even the most laughable conspiracies real longevity. We polled a number of conspiracy watchers and followed our own curiosities down the rabbit hole to compile a list of the 10 conspiracy theories most fueled by the Internet – and their continued chance of survival. Not surprisingly, the biggest -- and most outlandish -- ones tackle some of the most shocking moments of our time. Says Michael Barkun, author of "A Culture of Conspiracy" and a professor at Syracuse University, "Often a more elaborate, expansive cause is posited when an event has expansive effects," he explained.

9. Illumi-Mason-Berger: The Shadow Government

A perennial conspiracy theory that has taken various forms over the years holds that a secret group of powerful men control economies, create wars, famines and disasters for their own purposes, using their governments as puppets. (A favorite: David Icke, a British conspiracy theorist, propounds the view that world leaders are in fact shape-shifting 7-foot-tall reptilian aliens trying to destroy the Earth.) But you can lump conspiracies of all sorts of societies, from the Illuminati, the Freemasons and the Bilderberger Group, into this category. Barkun calls these "superconspiracies," a system of top-down control and order that can serve to make an ostensibly chaotic situation (like a financial crisis) more simple to understand. Forecast: Will last as long as governments do

Dear oh dear it must be true

Here’s another interesting one:
Watts just put up a new article titled premature chill in the arctic
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/19/premature-chill-in-the-arctic/

If you go to the link for the map ( http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/satellite/index.uk.php ) and then click anomalies instead of absolute temperatures, suddenly the “chill” becomes warmth.

[Response: This is a common practice for Watts -- especially regarding the arctic.]

note: The theory of Man Made Global Warming