The whole toxic frustration of conspiracy theorists
is that they can never be proved wrong.
All evidence against their ideas just becomes part of the conspiracy.
This is largely why, even though they seem obsessed with science,
they always get actual science so wrong.
This is going to kill billions.
Conspiracy Theories Versus Science.
[Truth Hurts]
A global pandemic is sweeping through the world,
claiming hundreds of thousands of lives.
At the same time, new technologies are emerging,
promising to transform the way we live.
Inevitably, people start connecting one with the other,
blaming this new tech for the disease
that is terrifying our societies.
We are, of course, talking about the Russian flu of 1898,
which killed over a million people and was frequently blamed on
electric light bulbs.
Funnily enough, it turned out
that electric light bulbs don’t cause the flu.
It’s been well-established that belief in conspiracy theories
is related to a disbelief in actual science.
In fact, it was a philosopher of science, Karl Popper,
who first coined the term “conspiracy theory.”
And so, through history,
new technology has inspired waves of fear and paranoia.
[The Killer Steam Train]
When the steam train was invented in the 19th century,
doom-mongers claimed that if it went over 30 miles per hour,
everyone on it would melt.
If it went over 50,
every female passenger would have her uterus sucked out.
[The 5G Pandemic]
We saw a similar thing with the coronavirus pandemic.
As the world went into lockdown, stories shot around the internet
that the whole thing was a deliberate biological attack
using 5G broadband.
These tales got a push from celebrities like Woody Harrelson,
Amir Khan,
and MIA.
5G engineers have been verbally assaulted on the street
and several masts in the UK were burned down.
But all this was actually building on conspiracy theories about 5G
that had already been circulating well before the pandemic.
If you don’t know what 5G network is,
trust me, your ass is going to find out sooner or later.
It’s a very, very, very fast internet connection
and it has a very high level of radiation.
All kinds of studies are already showing
people are going to be catching cancer,
they’re already catching cancer.
This **** is bad, like, this **** is going to cause turmoil
to your people.
Long before Covid, when 5G first appeared,
conspiracy theorists claimed that
shadowy evil forces of the government,
Bill Gates, the Illuminati, or whoever,
were using this new tech to make us ill,
to control the population, make money,
or whatever the Microsoft Freemasons seem to want.
The vast majority of people are asleep.
The plan of action is to increase our number across the country.
If anybody thinks that
this is going to kill six million, think again.
This is going to kill billions.
In a way, conspiracy theories
are a sort of bad mimicry of what scientists actually do:
questioning existing narratives and trying to discover the truth.
[The Anti-Vax Movement]
A good example is the anti-vaccine movement.
The anti-vax movement started in 1998,
when a doctor named Andrew Wakefield claimed that
the MMR vaccine gave kids autism.
It doesn’t.
And within a few years that paper was discredited
and Wakefield was banned from practicing medicine.
That didn’t stop him from becoming an anti-vax superstar,
flying around the world on speaking tours,
and dating 90s supermodel Elle MacPherson.
Any regrets, Dr. Wakefield?
No regrets, thank you.
There is now an entire mini-industry of pseudo-science hacks,
celebrities, and US presidents, who now call vaccines into question,
often while making money selling alternative therapies.
This is dangerous.
Vaccines only work effectively
if enough people within a population actually use them.
And the WHO lists vaccine hesitancy
as among the ten biggest health threats to mankind.
Think about it.
If you’re healthy,
what’s the common sense in taking a vaccine?
It doesn’t make any sense...
because it is of the devil.
Because the anti-vax movement can’t disprove the science behind vaccines,
they have only one place to go:
conspiracy theory.
Anything that goes against what they’re pitching,
I’m a conspiracy theorist.
Regarding masks,
I know for a fact that don't work
and I’ve seen enough evidence to say they don’t.
Calling scientists liars is a cornerstone of most conspiracies.
But the problem is that we need to trust in scientists
because when you tear up the very basis of truth,
you can start to believe in anything.
If we don’t believe in science,
very bad, powerful people with lots of money
get to claim whatever they want.
Bad people, like the fossil fuel lobby.
[The Fossil Fuel Lobby]
Because they can’t disprove
what 99 percent of scientists in the world think—
that man-made climate change is real and incredibly dangerous—
oil companies will fund official-sounding think tanks
to sow just enough doubt
that politicians can avoid making meaningful change.
Companies like Exxon,
or right-wing, billionaire political donors,
like the Mercer family and the Koch brothers,
pumped millions of dollars
into places with illustrious-sounding names,
like the Heartland Institute,
the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation
in order to undermine climate science without evidence.
It’s just a con job
what’s going on with this man-induced global warming.
There’s all this fuss and carry-on.
They’re trying to scare us.
It’s really about money.
An essential part of the climate change denier movement
is the idea that scientists, universities,
National Research Institutes, NGOs, charities,
the UN, the WHO, and NASA
are all part of a giant nefarious plot to stop people driving SUVs
so that they can get more research funding, or something.
The climate naturally changes,
and it has since the beginning of Earth.
It’s something that the global elites, Rothschild Zionists
use as a way to keep us in fear
and basically make us feel, as human beings,
that we are destroying the Earth
and we’re dirty, nasty beings.
Without conspiratorial thinking questioning science,
there really is no climate change denial movement.
So, as easy as it is to laugh at conspiracy theories,
the dangers they represent aren’t just limited to
inspiring random bits of terrorism.
When it comes to science,
they actually threaten the continued existence of
advanced human civilization on Earth.
So that’s great. Thanks, conspiracies.