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>My first though was spooks trying to discredit the reputation of the community as 'paranoid' and 'fanciful' given all the good and informative conversation regarding Snowden and other disclosures here lately.

You do realize this is by definition both paranoid and fanciful?

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Yeah I do. Although it is pretty tame on the spectrum. Certainly it is a more reasonable speculation than alien contact (low hurtle to jump).

For the record I don't believe this is the case. I do reserve the right to adknowledge it as a possibility with a small posterior probability in anticipation of additional priors.

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