Well, people are treating conspiranoia as if it is data, as in, “There are all these studies…” The problem is, of course, that they generally cannot produce the studies, or if they can they are completely misinterpreting the results. Not so much a problem with “toxic doses of data” as much as “toxic doses of bullshit”, but unless the hypothetical consumer of information understands the difference and has the tools to question it, they can’t distinguish one from the other. It’s like the moon landing hoaxers who will shove pages of calculations ‘proving’ why NASA couldn’t have sent astronauts to the Moon which looks impressive to anyone not conversant with orbital mechanics but is evident garbage to anyone who is.
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