While I'm not really invested in this particular case, it raises an interesting question.
How would we be able to tell the following apart:
- A fraudulent conspiracy theorist who spreads dangerous (possibly lethal) misinformation, and whose videos are therefore no longer hosted on YouTube, and who is denounced sincere colleagues and the authorities.
- A sincere scientist who discover important information that the authorities want to keep hidden, and is therefore set up and gagged.
Outwardly those situations might be very much alike.
Now I don't know about you guys, but here's my simple criteria:
As soon as the words 'Cabal', 'deep state', 'Illuminati', 'Freemasons' and other such generic conspiracy theorist terms are used, I default to concluding it's bullshit.
That's not because governments never pull (very!) shady shit; they do.
It's more of an Occam's Razor thing. All things alike, the more simple explanation in such situations is that one single person is off the raills. Involving shadow governments, coverups that include hundreds of thousands people keeping a secret, and shady 'evidence' for whatever claims are made is not the simplest solution.
In this particular case, what is the more simple solution: all goverments all over the world, and 99.99% of all virologists, MDs etc are in a secret conspiracy? Or this one person is wrong?
