Amazing. Chomsky is a legend. Who are you exactly? Ignoring his entire career to simply dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist. Ignorance and apathy like yours is why the US has fallen into the hole it's in now.

I'm not ignoring his entire career. He's one of the towering intellectuals of the 20th Century, and his work in linguistics has positively influenced a range of fields.

But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

>and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

Yea, for the same reason people who claimed the US was spying on everyone remained on the fringe.... until we had a bunch of evidence of it dropped on us.

Also, Chomsky's work is always backed by an incredible amount of evidence.

Edit: I can not over emphasize 'incredible amount of evidence.'

Don't confuse footnotes with evidence.

>>But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

They have remained on the fringe because most people would rather tell themselves that things are generally okay.

And what has ignorance of basic logical fallacies like "appeal to authority" caused?

Chomsky is a legendary linguist, a rightly deserved reputation, but that doesn't give him automatic credibility outside of linguistics.

In other words you have nothing of substance to say, either.