ALEX JONES WAS RIGHT, but...

Dr. Hayes TED talk: https://youtu.be/Hu0IXMTFY9Q

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00:00 Intro
01:31 Demonstrable craziness & rational opposition
03:36 Stranger than fiction ("Gay frogs" story)
16:47 Short list of actual well known conspiracies
18:24 Conspiracies, a tutorial
20:55 Suggestions on how to fight misinformation

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I hope you enjoyed the video. I had a lot of fun making it :)

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The video explores the difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracies, using the story of Dr. Tyrone Hayes and his battle with Syngenta as an example.

Personally, I am not a big conspiracy guy. What I mean by that is that I don’t spend a lot of time and attention to stay up on the latest conspiracies and the theories there of. The reason I don’t do it is the same reason I don’t follow politics, social issues, wars, recessions, what celebrities and politicians say. The same reason I don’t have any social media on my phone, why I don’t have Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and whatever other parasitic willpower/attention stealing shit is in vogue this fiscal quarter. I have fallen for every trap there is to fall for and I’m sure there are a hundred more that I am yet to discover, but all of the above mentioned ones I am successfully avoiding. However, it’s still fun to sometimes talk about the things that I’ve noticed and find funny, absurd, noteworthy. And when it comes to conspiracies and how terms like “misinformation” and “conspiracy theorists” have come to be used as tools to discredit people, it’s something that, for the first time in my life, I noticed way before it blew up. Of course, people have always thrown around the “conspiracy theorist” term to make people they disagree with seem crazy, but you can agree, I hope, that lately this has become way more popular. I saw some years ago that the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” were being used more and more. And I felt in the moment as if I had stumbled upon $500 bitcoin. I knew that shit would eventually be used by the powers that be (media, corporations, governments, lizard people and yo mama) to discredit whoever had an opinion that wasn’t approved by whoever was in power at the time. Oh, boy, if Enron was still around, I probably could’ve put some money on that shit. I would’ve also put a side bet on something like “TRUST SCIENCE” being a thing. And, yes, I probably would’ve put my money on “SCIENCE” being some no-name amoral bureaucrat with a PhD, not the actual process of the scientific method.

But, you know, that’s life. I am not the guy who’s going to change shit, nor do I want to. Whichever side of whatever hot topic you’re on, I’m sure you’re pissed about the state of the world. But the world is not broken. Humanity is not broken. It’s just the natural course of reality, happening before our eyes. And making dumb jokes about it is about as much involvement as I can handle. Sit back and enjoy it, like Ron Swanson admiring hippies at Grain 'n Simple.