The world goes crackers when Twitter suspends the accounts of journalists who directly compromise Musk's security by revealing his live location. When Twitter was suspending journalists for revealing information on COVID that turned out to be absolutely true - 'it's a private company, they can do what they like'
A good mate had cash on this outcome back in January! He's a gambler mind, so no doubt he had others, but he was very vocal about this one.
In my experience, the people who believe these things are, without exception, the less intelligent people I know. People who struggled through school in the lowest sets and never quite "got it". They simply want to believe that, this time, they are smarter than everyone else and they're the ones who have "figured it out"... by watching a couple of YouTube videos . The truth is, these people are of far below average intelligence, and really should listen to the scientists, doctors, etc. who were born much smarter than them and dedicated their lives to become experts in their chosen field.
Then you have archaeologists who've spent twenty years trying to label Graham Hancock a conspiracy theorist for suggesting, based on compelling evidence, that human civilization goes back thousands of years further than the establishment would have us believe. And he's being proved more correct every year as new findings are made. So it's not a one-way street.
Yes, we can put that in the 'halfwit' column. Beyond The Curve is a fantastic documentary about these people.
Perhaps. But then you have situations when scientists walk in lockstep, never challenging each other. As the late Michael Crichton said, "When you hear scientists citing 'consensus' they are coming for your wallet; the words scientist and consensus should never be uttered in the same sentence" He was right. A questioning , challenging attitude has been at the heart of every major advance of mankind. Including by the way, the devices we are all using to write on here. Gordon Moore was laughed at and widely ridiculed when he suggested that the amount of transistors on a silicon chip could be doubled every year or so in the mid sixties. This is 'Moore's Law'. He was right, and I'm holding about 2 billion of them in my hand now. Only very recently is this exponential growth slowing up. Of course there is always wild talk of lizards controlling us from the sewers, and much else, but scepticism is healthy. The ' experts' are often not what they seem, and are often compromised.