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This is a clear candidate for conspiracy theory peddlers. I wish people would write headlines better so these Internet fabulists aren't just given t-balls for their wild stories


The people who want to believe in nonsense conspiracies are not going to be deterred just because we exert a bunch of extra energy parsing our words just right.


The articles they link to are very few in number. It's like under 6 or so.

They snag on to small quotes and tiny threads and recycle them for decades. Fabrications like The Protocols from the late 1800s or the Rothchilds Waterloo story from the 1840s still get bandied about.

From Gary Allen's None Dare Call It Conspiracy to the modern Alex Jones, it's actually just a few pages of misinterpreted empirical evidence, quotes without context or poorly written headlines

We should all be weary of adding something to that list.




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