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Americans Not Poisoned By Chemtrails North Americans not poisoned by 'chemtrails' Samuel Orez Reporting Look to the sky on a sunny day. There's a good chance you'll see something that looks out of place in nature. If nature abhors the straight line, the contrail that sometimes appears behind a jet aircraft is anything but a natural cloud. A contrail is, according to the Free Online Dictionary, "A visible trail of streaks of condensed water vapour or ice crystals sometimes forming in the wake of an aircraft." It is, in other words, harmless; it's what happens when the laws of physics hold sway over the actions and constructs of humanity. Sadly, a disturbingly large group of people who otherwise seem to be reasoning, functioning adults believe that contrails in the sky are really chemtrails – an insidious government plot to control or otherwise experiment on an unknowing populace. are such exceptions, in fact, that they are cited Except that this isn't true. repeatedly as examples of government "diseases" like Morgellons. In so doing, they The idea that chemtrails menace us from malfeasance. The Tuskegee Experiment, the commit and further a disservice to all of their the skies isn't just absurd. There's simply no real infamous human radiation experiments in fellow citizens. What they are doing is evidence for it. The "proof" that is presented for Rochester, N.Y., these are burned into vilifying technology for no reason. They the existence of chemtrails can easily be Americans' collective memory. It is incidents condemn an undefined technology in the name debunked or dismissed. There are few if any like these that fill an ever-growing list of of an ill-defined fear, producing an exceptions. government misdeeds. But does Ashland, Ore., unwarranted unease. Take this posting, for example, from a really belong on that list? Are chemtrails truly It must be truly exhausting to be a survivalist blog whose author I follow on the threat their believers wish you to accept? conspiracy theorist. Believers in these Twitter. The post is presented as video "proof" Obviously, they are not, but a nonsensical myths must spend every day in a of the spraying of chemicals in the atmosphere. conspiracy's true believers always conform to flop-sweating state of stark terror, convinced The author writes, certain patterns of behaviour. They incorrectly that everything around them is dangerous and A pilot shoots a chemical plane from his attribute to a conspiracy perfectly natural or everything beyond their control is a cockpit: the video shows an aircraft that spread benign phenomena that have mundane coordinated campaign to harm them. The chemtrails over Canada from the nozzles. The explanations. They cherry pick data that consumer products in their homes are all footage is the irrefutable proof of a chemical "proves" their theories while selectively contaminated. The water coming from their and clandestine operation that a bold pilot offers ignoring information that refutes those ideas. pipes is laced with Nazi-era mind-control to the public in order to demonstrate that They claim that any information not available to industrial waste toxins. The skies above them chemtrails are real. The "smoke" we can see is support their assertions has been "suppressed," are filled with black helicopters – and above neither a fuel dumping nor a contrail. The while any information proving them wrong is those helicopters, jet aircraft spray chemtrails, in fact, is iridescent too. Don't listen misinformation promulgated by the malevolent biochemical warfare agents among the clouds, to hoaxers who repeat that this document is entities they blame for furthering the conspiracy to some vaguely evil end that can spell false or similar lies. itself. In so doing, they build a framework from nothing but certain doom. The problem, of course, is that the video which they can shout their ridiculous ideas to There is no chemtrail threat. Isolated is a hoax – or rather, it isn't the proof it has been the benighted masses. abuses of power are not an organized, secret touted to be, nor was it ever such evidence. It When those ideas are not well-received, campaign to spray you with poison or germs. took only a few seconds of searching to find an the true believers demand that nonbelievers If you believe otherwise, you have some explanation for the original piece: "wake up," presumably because failure to serious growing up to do. [] A YouTube video very clearly shows embrace the conspiracy is an act of apathy or aerodynamic contrails coming from the wings laziness. If sufficiently prodded, they will begin of a KC-10. The pilots on the cockpit are heard angrily accusing skeptics and critics alike of joking about it being "chemtrails." The being paid off or otherwise taking part in the conspiracy theorist who reposted the video as vast conspiracy in question. proof of chemtrails, not being a native English This childish behaviour has one speaker, misses this and thinks they are being purpose. It insulates the conspiracy theorist serious. He then goes on to "analyze" the video, from what is true. It prevents him from and points to the flap mechanisms as being acknowledging reality. This delusional nozzels [sic]. architecture, in fact, sets up a belief system that The site Contrail Science, in fact, is almost completely impervious to logic, contains a wealth of calmly, methodically reason and common sense. presented material thoroughly debunking Believers in the conspiracy, in this case chemtrail mythology. I have to admit that I was the chemtrail menace, so ardently, firmly and disappointed, when I set out to write a column stubbornly believe in their misguided ideas that on the topic, to discover that the work had they refuse to change their minds even in the already been done. face of overwhelming information to the While isolated cases of government contrary. They go on seeing airplanes spraying abuse of power – including chemical "chemicals" despite the truth, and they blame experimentation on unwitting citizens – most those chemicals for everything from mass certainly do exist, they are the exceptions. They government mind control to arguably imaginary