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fark this guy, and fark anybody who buys into his shiat.

When questioned about his theories by a local CBS12 news reporter, Tracy responded, "The whole country mourned about Sandy Hook, but yet again the investigation that journalistic institutions should have carried out never took place, in my opinion."

He sounds very much like the journalistic version of a few of my fellow Philosophy students in college, who thought all you needed to be a philosopher was to just ask "why" about everything.

But worse and inhuman.

So all those grieving parents were...what? paid actors?  and all the Funerals just elaborate shams where people who pretended to be the devastated friends and relatives where just putting on a show?

This goes beyond nutty conspiracy theorist into serious mental illness territory.  It reminds me of the psychological condition where people wake up one day  and sincerely believe that everyone they know and love have been replaced by exact android duplicates or something/

Magorn: So all those grieving parents were...what? paid actors?  and all the Funerals just elaborate shams where people who pretended to be the devastated friends and relatives where just putting on a show?

This goes beyond nutty conspiracy theorist into serious mental illness territory.  It reminds me of the psychological condition where people wake up one day  and sincerely believe that everyone they know and love have been replaced by exact android duplicates or something/

As with most conspiracists, he suffers from severe cognitive dissonance.  Perhaps he should have taken some Philosophy classes while at Iowa.

Or, he could just be an attention whoring asshole like Alex Jones.

fireclown: Give the guy some slack. He was in Ghost Busters for Repetes sake.

His blog, with 222 followers

Yup. It sucks.

Arkanaut: TFA seems to leave out whether Prof. Tracy has visited Sandy Hook himself to conduct an investigation.

I think he's probably the Bill Frist of journalism.

Superjew: Seconding mental illness. We really need to get some sort of early detection system in place so we can catch and treat these people before they become right-wing radio personalities and speakers of the house.

Are you kidding? Detection of this order should be sufficient reason to put these people on the air for our amusement!

Nurglitch: I'm glad I did my under-graduate degree somewhere where the professors were pretty dead set against the notion of needlessly asking "Why?" and holding students to a degree of rigour

It wasn't tolerated.  They washed out of the discipline or did extremely poorly.  The toughest prof we had loved to torture one of them in class.  How that kid didn't kill himself is beyond me.  Probably the fact that he had so much money he didn't care if he passed or not.

Superjew: Seconding mental illness. We really need to get some sort of early detection system in place so we can catch and treat these people before they become right-wing radio personalities and speakers of the house.

Maybe a waiting period and background check before being allowed to have an AM radio show and a ban on "High-capacity" Twitter accounts?  I'm just thinking out loud here..

you are a puppet
There are just too many coincidences. Gun? Woman with son? School? Put together all the bits and pieces and the trail all leads back to Solyndra. Follow the money.

Genius! All the 'deceased' children are currently working in Solyndra underground facility. Their little, ten year old hands are the perfect size to assemble modern solar collectors. Expect more "killings" as this evil company needs more tiny hands for its evil, green business.

Diogenes: He sounds very much like the journalistic version of a few of my fellow Philosophy students in college, who thought all you needed to be a philosopher was to just ask "why" about everything.

But worse and inhuman.

I really enjoyed my philosophy classes. Well, the one after the first, which was designed to "Teach you about critical thinking" and how to "question your own beliefs". Which was kinda boring to me, because Pratchett books had already caused me to start doing that years prior... plus, it was in a class that was too large for a group discussion and a teacher that didn't like it if you felt one of the philosophers was using fallacious arguments (and could explain why).

The other two classes I got to take were awesome. It may be because I enjoyed debating (and if the rest of the class started agreeing with me, was able to start picking apart my own arguments) and just liked to try to get to the truth or heart of the matter. And the teacher was fine with you disagreeing with him (we had a fun argument about the Ship of Theseus).

/Physics major/now grad student.
//Didn't understand some of my classmates disdain for philosophy. Looking at why you think what you think is IMPORTANT. Even if it's uncomfortable sometimes....

I can't believe any thinking human being would really say that. "Crisis actors"??? What the F*CK?!??!?

If this guy really thinks that Sandy Hook didn't happen, that those parents didn't really lose their children and this was just some kind of emergency-response drill--he's more heartless and psychotic than the shooter ever dreamed of being.