"Mama, we're all crazy now..."
I posted this as a response to another person, but I feel that it's worth
putting up front here on my page:
"Pseudoscience", to me, means anything touted as true
and factual, without any given supported facts or evidence. Usually promoted by
anonymous websites and youtube experts with no credentials or history of
expertise.
These - to me - include chemtrails, flat Earth (how is that even
a THING?!?) the moon landing, stolen election, pizzagate, Bill Gates vaccine
microchip, Red Pill, Hunter Biden's laptop, hydroxychloroquine cures Covid,
election ballots transported across state lines in the back of a pickup truck,
secret ballots in suitcases that were switched on camera, vaccines cause
autism, etc.
These usually pan out to be baseless, and often die a quiet
death when the momentum slows, simply because without a ground for accusation,
the floor gives away pretty quick. Others, like the vaccine-autism thing, are
play on real fears of the ignorant, and retain popularity because of
unfortunate mis-steps, such as the vaccine court.
Some others are over-inflated hype attacks with elements of
truth in them, such as Hillary Clinton's emails, the Benghazi
"scandal" - both were true events, used as propaganda ammunition in a
smear campaign, that eventually led nowhere.
I'm getting better at spotting them, because they usually follow
the same pattern; a lone "expert", or character witness is revealed
to have incriminating testimony, and can PROVE what they say is true...if only
someone would interview them. I call this the "beacon of truth"
syndrome. The evidence is always something that absolutely flies in the face of
accepted science or common sense (wouldn't pilots releasing chemtrails also be
killing their own families? Why would they do it?), in favor of appealing to
baseline societal fears and xenophobia.
For instance: Jesse Morgan.
Do you remember him? Does anybody?
A low-level U.S. Postal Service subcontractor truck driver, came
forward with allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Morgan alleges that he drove hundreds of thousands of fraudulent mail-in
ballots across state lines, from Bethpage, New York, to Lancaster,
Pennsylvania.
He says that he knows this because HE LOOKED INTO THE BAGS
(Federal offense punishable by mandatory jail time, right there), AND READ
THOUSANDS OF FRAUDULENT BALLOTS. Immediately granted whistleblower status,
Jesse's 15 minutes of fame were up so fast, the clock didn't even go
"ping". Less than a week after he appeared, he vanished into the
mist.
A quick investigation of his claims revealed he was not only
lying, he was a terrible driver as well - in this world of ubiquitous cell
phones with cameras, this USPS driver never thought to document this
"irregularity" by taking photos of these illegal ballots as proof,
all his supposed 'evidence' was anecdotal.
I knew this was a scam from the first reporting, it had all the
elements; a lone testimony, beacon of truth syndrome, common sense and legal
intuition both offended. Two days later...he was nothing more than a memory.
Fraudulent conspiracies are like that - they burn brightly for
all of a moment, then die out once the cookies are gone.
Remember Stella Emmanuel, the "doctor" from Cameroon
who touted hydroxychloroquine could cure Covid-19. She was famously praised by
Trump, and then denied knowing anything about her five minutes later.
Literally, Trump denied Immanuel faster than Peter denied
Christ...and that takes some doing.
Immanuel was part of a small team, self-titled "America's
Frontline Doctors" - about 10 physicians, dressed in white coats with an
embroidered America's Frontline Doctors logo, claiming to be on the "front
lines of Covid-19".
Turns out, they weren't anywhere NEAR the "front
lines", and the webpage for the "team" redirects you to a
storefront for buying hydroxychloroquine, as well as other snake-oil cures.
Immanuel is also, conveniently, a pastor, and cashes in on the
religious/political paranoia of the evangelical right. Like all witch doctors,
she must attack the truth to protect her lies; this is what I pulled from her
facebook page regarding Anthony Fauci...before I was blocked and banned from
Facebook for a month.
You should have seen the responses she got from the
"faithful" (so-called).
...which I just so happened to screenshot.
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