# Help me debunk a claim made by my conspiracy theorist friend **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171 "2023-01-13T15:13:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171/81 "2023-01-18T23:39:50Z")
Just don’t be in awe of a ewe. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171/82 "2023-01-19T00:06:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’ve actually heard (herd?) antivaxers pretending that the very name “herd immunity” is insulting to human beings, implying that we are naught but brute beasts. If you know that they’re religious, you might casually point out the Bible refers to people as sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171/83 "2023-01-19T00:23:48Z")
Which makes them the _original_ “sheeple”? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171/84 "2023-01-19T00:40:34Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > [Claims baselessly link COVID vaccines to athlete deaths | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-vaccines-athlete-deaths-1500-989195878254) I feel like that level of fact checking, by Fox, should open them up to further legal repercussions. If you’re telling people to not get vaccinated because you saw that someone on the internet compiled a list of “dead, youthful athletes” - a list that includes a 71 year old and that doesn’t pass any basic sanity check for relevance to the topic at hand - then it seems reasonable to hold you legally liable for damages that come from vaccine refusal. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171/85 "2023-01-19T01:12:09Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > To have a meaningful change in voter demographics I think you’d need a more virulent pathogen than SARS-CoV-2 The reason I have pet bats and pet pangolins is because they are cute, and I can’t be held responsible for what they do on their own time. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171/86 "2023-01-19T09:26:11Z")
You should be fine as long as you don’t lick them. [![](https://i.redd.it/ub0dhsyquhk61.png) ](https://i.redd.it/ub0dhsyquhk61.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-debunk-a-claim-made-by-my-conspiracy-theorist-friend/978171.md?page=4)