Try as we might to combat this insanity, no amount of facts will ever make these idiots stop being idiots. Aside from the 5G hysteria, I've also noticed a larg

Try as we might to combat this insanity, no amount of facts will ever make these idiots stop being idiots. Aside from the 5G hysteria, I've also noticed a large uptick in people believing that COVID-19 is engineered and patented by Bill Gates, as part of his project to reduce the global population. Why exactly would he want to do that? Well the why is not important, apparently. The Gates stuff is quite well explained in the associated Snopes[0] page. Sharing that article with an acquaintance brought her to respond with: > this Article is a Total BS > All i can say. I dont trust anything that i read anymore. Only What i hear from people that are completely Free and independent. And no, im not wrong. If you still cant see it then go to YouTube do your research , when you still can. Cuz it might be censored one day I explained that I am "completely free and independent", but apparently that's not the way it works. Like Troy Hunt, I too have been trying to figure out why conspiracy theorists believe in some utterly insane ideas, but not others. And what if I start some of my own conspiracy theories? Would they be plausible? Would they catch on? Why? Why not? The first thing I came up with was: > The African giraffe is actually a genetically-modified animal, engineered by the CIA. It was a covert government project to see if the necks of animals could be elongated — the ambition being to then apply this research to humans, making their brains develop less (because the biological development would now go to supporting their longer neck muscles) as a means to more easily mind-control the global population So, if that one ever makes the rounds among the semi-literate on Facebook, you heard it here first. [0]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-vaccinations-depopulation/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-vaccinations-de...