As with Powell’s “Spyder,” I wonder if this stuff gets traction in part because it’s so OBVIOUSLY absurd to anyone technical that the folks who could easily debunk it can’t imagine it’s worth the time to do so.
https://twitter.com/normative/status/1351617230375682054
It’d be like writing a long essay explaining the world isn’t actually run by Lizard People. Who could fall for that in the first place? And if they did, well, they’ve probably got a screw loose and writing a rational response ain’t going to help.
Except it turns out NOT to be so obviously gibberish to the non-technical, for whom it all sort of sounds like gibberish, and the absence of a response gets interpreted as “the MSM is AFRAID to talk about the evidence."
Compounded by the fact that external signs of credibility don’t work that well online. Any idiot with a couple hours and a boilerplate template can make a site that looks as superficially “professional” as a real news outlet, and everything looks the same on Facebook.
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