Why don't the "skeptics" ever attack the Prayer Man theory?...
Is it because some CT-ers are actually Agent Provocateurs trying to discredit the genuine CT community with crazy claims?...
History would suggest - the UFO field being one notable example - that governmental disinformation agents and cognitive infiltrators would be far more likely to be promoting self-evident wackiness like Prayer Man or
Harvey and Lee than trying to defend and prop up the LN narrative. It's odd that CTers seemingly never grasp this reality.
I will confess, why the LN zealots feel compelled to zealously defend the LN narrative as though it were their religion is a mystery to me, but it certainly isn't because they have been recruited by the CIA; there may have been some of that in the early days, but not 62 years later. A wacky CTer would be a far more likely candidate. On the other hand, every area of weirdness including the JFKA is rife with true wackos whose true wackiness has nothing to do with being a disiniformation agent or cognitive infiltrator - so separating the faux crazies from the genuine ones poses a bit of a challenge.
This is why, I imagine, the LN zealots tend to be the ones suspected of being cognitive infiltrators; zealously defending the LN narrative isn't self-evidently wacky, but on the other hand identifying a motive for this level of zealotry is rather difficult. To pick on John C since he started this thread, he claims to be a devout LNer who finds all this CT stuff beneath him, yet he haunts the forum like almost no one else. Why? Maybe he's being paid to do so, ya think? Some of the CTers here would fit the more likely profile of a cognitive infiltrator - but maybe they're just genuine wackos, ya think? Yep, it's a challenge.
At the Ed Forum, I always thought the CIA could not invent a better cognitive infiltrator than Dr. Niederwacky - a licensed psychiatrist who nevertheless spouts jaw-dropping nonsense about almost every topic while accusing anyone who disagrees (including little old
me, for God's sake) of being a cognitive infiltrator! He has almost single-handedly destroyed the Ed Forum. He probably isn't one, but
that's what a cognitive infiltrator would look like.