Chris there is thing called Poe's law to do with parodying extremists where the parody is indistiguishable from the extremist dogma.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law
This skit and some of the comments underneath are a very neat proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzbN...feature=fvwrel
Maybe there should be a corollary that when an article is dry and academic sounding it should still be suspect without corroborative evidence.
If I was out to fool intelligent people I would be very careful to make the spiel to sound as authoritative as possible. It also helps to appeal to their world view by having some of the story absolutely correct. This is the bread and butter of spin doctors.
H is really good at smelling the rats.
Bert