re: And yet, that proves absolutely nothing
I don't have to prove that paranoid conspiracy theories are not true. The burden of proof lies in the other direction.
Plenty of people think oppostion on various boards is part of some massive coordinated paid effort to squash the people on these boards.
I'm sorry that idiocy is so easily squashed, but that doesn't mean you have to find paid experts to do it. Anybody with a working forebrain is usually enough to get the job done.
Meanwhile, I'm not going to let Prisonplanet.com and Truthout.org tell me how it is, particularly after, in the latter case, their spectacular Plame flameout, among many others, reduced their credibility into the negative numbers.