It seems when people are in a mass agreement, they have the ability to alter the loose ends of a theory towards something completely different.
What we truly believe can become possible.
It's this same "confidence" issue that is blinded by our ego.
In a way yes, people also trust other people blindly. For example, if you sit in a circle with like...20 people. One of the people tells the guy left of him "Conspiracy Theory", that guy tells that 'same' word to guy on his left. By the time you have had everyone in the circle, and the last guy tells you what he heard. That word could have become toothbrush for example. Words get twisted, people get misunderstood, and the thing starts living it's own life.
By the way, this is a good example of how ungrounded a conspiracy theory movie is. I dare you to watch this movie the first time, without any sound on, then watch it again with sound, then read on:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-jzNfxKSio&feature=related
It's a short movie about a 9/11 conspiracy theory. In the beginning, he says that the shadow of the plane is only visible after the flash occurs. But from what I can see in this movie, there is actually already a very thin shadow there. The big shadow you see afterwards are wings of the plane blocking the sun. The shadow is already there, but hardly noticeable because of the low-res movie. He also says the flash is twice as large as the fussilage (spelling? Please correct me on it), well...duh! It's a small explosion, explosions tend to expand. This means, get-ting big-ger.
Near the end of the movie he says "Look closely *zooms in on BLURRED video image* and extra piece on the plane is visible. Now, without having any sound on, I bet you that you haven't seen any extra piece on that plane. Now with sound on, you might actually see something. If we had a higher res movie of this, chance are big that that 'extra piece' was actually a shadow of the engine.
Last but not least, he uses material shot by CNN. Great, CNN is not a bad source. Problem is, chances are large that the guy who made this video wasn't actually there. So he based his theories on what he saw on the blurred movies, then tries to convince us of this conspiracy theory. This again, is the same as what I started with in this post. People see or hear blurry and vague things, start thinking of there own and try to make something out of it. The word toothbrush was created out of the word conspiracy theory. And a conspiracy theory was created out of some vague and blurry images and words of a man I myself do not know, and is an unreliable source of information.
Now for all we know, this guy is actually correct and I am making a conspiracy theory here about him. A conspiracy theory about a guy who is trying to make us believe the government is lieing to the rest of the world. Fact is, we do not know what happened, we do not have reliable evidence, we only have blurry images to go on. So who do you believe, a guy with a conspiracy theory and vague evidence, or me; someone who tells you his evidence is fake, giving reasons why his evidence is unreliable. Answer: Neither, unless you have clear evidence, you should not believe me OR this guy. You should not believe anyone. Now I'm not saying you should not believe anyone in this world anymore, I'm sure your parents wouldn't lie to you if you asked them if they adopted you. (At least, I don't hope they do) But you should take caution with conspiracy theories, and keep an open mind. Don't believe anyone, even if they have some kind of evidence. And seriously, do not follow the flock: "Oh this must be true, because my friend says so, and it is on YouTube"