Why not study fairy creatures?

Iran is at it again. This time they are holding a conference for quacks, aka Holocaust Deniers.

According to the institute's chief, "This conference seeks neither to deny nor prove the Holocaust," Mousavi said. "It is just to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their opinions in freedom about a historical issue."

Why not hold a conference to study dragons and fairy creatures?

I am sick and tired of radicals attempting to bring academic validity to their insanity. The sad thing is that it works and it has worked in the USA. Start a think tank with to publish "evidence" that Welfare Mothers are the problem with the American economy and the attention shifts from the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, and white-collar fraud. Start a conference on denying the Holocaust, and people suddenly start arguing with Wackos about whether the Holocaust happened an ignore the fact that they want to WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP.

Not every theory has equal merit; not every belief is justifiable; not every conference is scientific, just because it claims to be so.

Posted by Peter