Why do people who say "I'd have to see it to believe it," then disbelieve documentaries with clear evidence?

Because they choose to be ignorant.

In response to Bob's comment. Very very few 911 truthers deny there were planes that hit the WTC. And I've never heard anyone say that the people were not on the planes and weren't dead. So there you go.

It is fishy.. because the biggest conspirators are those in the US Government. Don't be Naive.

The government has never proven who was behind the 911 attacks. That's why so many people believe that the government was behind the attacks.

7 of the 19 -9/11 hijackers as identified by the FBI.. have been found alive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm

http://911review.org/Wget/members.fortunecity.com/...

And the FBI can't link Osama Bin Laden to the 911 attacks.

http://dmiessler.com/blog/the-fbi-cant-link-bin-la...

So really it is unclear who is responsible for this crime. But I have my suspicions.

The US Government has admitted to abusing and killing thousands of US Citizens in the past. Who says they won't do it again?

Operation Northwoods:

http://www.nowaroncuba.org/Documentation/Northwood...

US Governments Radiation Experiments on US Citizens!

http://www.bethedream.net/Landry_files/Human_Radia...

US Government's Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on Black Men! & US Government's Plutonium Experiments on Citizens

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/adrastea.htm

7000 American soldiers were subjected to testing of biological and chemical weapons

http://home.earthlink.net/~popfactory/id9.html

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

- George Washington, 1790

If documentaries aren't clear evidence, how did Gore win a Nobel Prize for a one-sided documentary that has seemingly convinced millions about global warming?

It seems like people are picking and choosing here.

The thing about 9/11 is we'll never really know what did or didn't happen so it's "theory" even on the governments' end. And I back that statement up by the fact that the list of hijackers they named contains names of still living pilots who were trained in the US. (Source: BBC)

What makes it difficult for a wide-scale independent investigation to be supported by the public is varying theories that have everyone from the US Government to Israel being the masterminds behind it. Drop the "Who did what" question and most people would want to know more and would likely acknowledge that there IS more we do not know. And let's remember, Bush and Cheney both personally asked Tom Daschal not to launch a congressional investigation (source: CNN). Why would anyone do that and not think it will raise more questions?

I was working in the nuclear security field that day. I KNOW fishy things happened. I know our security level was not raised until the next day and that was internally done and later demanded by the government. I also know that nobody can answer why a plane wasn't flown into a nuclear plant/silo instead of a building -- surely that has more "terror" impact. The odds of a radioactive release are slim but it would still interrupt power in the grid and cause nationwide problems. Doesn't that make it a better target for such a plan?

There are plenty of questions out there that have never been thought about let alone asked.

I tend to believe it's the grief process. The first step is denial -- only many never make it past that step.

You my friend are one sick puppy. You post a question on something you haven't a clue on. An atheist. Let me inform you. An atheist does not believe in any supreme being. god, creator or all in the same. Believe it or not, an atheist is just another human being. I am atheist. I also like to read novels. I have found the bible not to be even a decent novel. There are some things in the bible to be most interesting, but not anything in a godly sense. I find it interesting when I read Ezecial tell me of a flying ship that he saw, 6 or more thousands of years ago. Ezecial discribed the landing gears, the wheel, the wings and the pilot sitting on the seat covered in alluminum or some other shiny matterial. He even told me of the gyro. A wheel within a wheel. the folks in the ship even offered him a ride, which he accepted. They took him to the mother ship high over the earth. Of course Ezecial thought he saw and was talking to god and god took him to heaven and showed him around. But, if god needs a flying machine to get around in, then it was some alien craft from some other planet. The thing I find most interesting about this craft is this. It had decals on four of it's side of a pichure of the face of a Lion, an Ox, an Eagle and a face of a man. I do find it interesting that a UFO visited the earth that many years ago. These decals of earth creatures might explain that some visitor from a different time period broke threw a time barior. But it must have been someone after the time I am in, or I would have read of it happening.

Is brilliant that the masses all respond with; 'documentaries are more like propaganda.' What on earth do you think the drivel you watch on your television set is?

During the Reagan administration an executive order was passed whereby news networkds did not have to give both sides of an argument, which, by definition would be propaganda. Shortly after this order, Sky News was born.

The many people who turn a blind eye are just not ready to hear that such a plan could be even conceived by a government, never mind achieved.

If I could stand and say one thing to anyone, it would that in order to realise it all, and the subsequent impact of it, you really need to research it from both points of view yourself, and then make an honest call because this is what I did, and it just does not even come close to the official verdicts given.

Maybe all the media spin on conspiracy theorists being mad lone crackpots acting from an underground bunker in Guam, has made most people just turn off to anything 'this section' of society say because they are not the majority, and in a democracy, the majority always rule.

They don't want to believe what they are seeing. It's that simple. My husband is just this way. The implications are too much to face.

Part of the problem, though, is that so many of the documentary makers seem unable to resist including sensationalism and other unrelated conspiracy theories in their material, or at least using a style or *tone* of overstatement or anger, that smacks less-than-scholarly. Frankly, I've been too embarrassed to show anyone the available info because it's always couched in this style. As if the information didn't speak for itself! They always have to put in something about how evil or outrageous blah blah. I wish there were a truly scholarly one out there without any of the other stuff, that didn't draw conclusions but just presented the problems and evidence neutrally and clearly without overstatement.

(Boy that "diverted to Cleveland" is a good example of what I'm talking about. Puh-leaze.)

I believe the correct term would be cognitive dissonance,which is the filtering of information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce ones beliefs.If you make people question their beliefs,it disrupts everything their entire SELF was built upon,and their only defense is denial and retreat.

People don't believe these "documentaries" because there is no proof anything is "fishy." Evidence can be taken either way. Besides, these so-called "documentaries" only show one side of the story.

Quantity does not equate to veracity. Those "documentaries" were designed to attract a crowd to buy tickets and see them. No one viewing them ever wondered what the political agenda of the movie maker was. It was visual! Therefore it was true! What absolute nonsense. I lost two people I knew who were on the plane which struck the Pentagon building. They were passengers on the plane. They were not riding on top of some cruise missile. They are dead. I went to their funeral. Despite that reality, some numb nuts wants to have me believe that they were riding on top of some missile.

To me the saddest thing is the absolutely unemotional hardness of these "documentary makers" who have no feelings whatsoever for those who perished or the loved ones and friends who had to mourn those losses. They are so driven by their private demons and a visceral hatred of George Walker Bush that they put any trace of humanity they might have in the trash can.

Documentaries can be made by people with an agenda who will only show things to make it look the way they want it to look. It's easy to make a film with nothing but lies in it. Just look at Michael Moore's work

Documentaries aren't fact, they are telling only part of a story and shouldn't be considered "clear evidence" by anyone with a brain.