Excellent post, Ken. Remember when the 60's hippies said: Never trust anyone over 30! That same bunch demanded their Free Speech Rights then, but now that they're "in charge" no one has those same rights (except themselves, of course.) They are the ones now refusing to teach critical-thinking skills in the classroom. *They* are the ones refusing to teach civics and history related to their nation's Constitution and laws. I don't blame kids today, they simply don't have enough life behind them to recognize their government is setting them up to be cannon fodder when the firing begins. That's terribly unfair to them, us, and the West, overall.
Also, since when is it "Science" to silence any scientist who merely disagrees and/or asks for evidence that proves the prevailing (Politically-tainted, incomplete) Scientific "consensus" on anything?
A conspiracy theory is a belief that an event or situation is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people. For something to be labeled a ‘conspiracy theory’, it has to involve a conspiracy - a secret coordinated plan. Of the examples you gave, the only ones that may have been labeled a conspiracy theory by anybody at any point in time was the Wuhan lab leak theory, which is really a perfect example of a conspiracy theory - you have a theory that a conspiracy has taken place. Unlike most conspiracy theories, the lab leak one is plausible (though still seems unlikely) because the Chinese government is one of the few governments capable of covering up something like that. Unfortunately, we’ll probably never know.
Excellent post, Ken. Remember when the 60's hippies said: Never trust anyone over 30! That same bunch demanded their Free Speech Rights then, but now that they're "in charge" no one has those same rights (except themselves, of course.) They are the ones now refusing to teach critical-thinking skills in the classroom. *They* are the ones refusing to teach civics and history related to their nation's Constitution and laws. I don't blame kids today, they simply don't have enough life behind them to recognize their government is setting them up to be cannon fodder when the firing begins. That's terribly unfair to them, us, and the West, overall.
Also, since when is it "Science" to silence any scientist who merely disagrees and/or asks for evidence that proves the prevailing (Politically-tainted, incomplete) Scientific "consensus" on anything?
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A conspiracy theory is a belief that an event or situation is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people. For something to be labeled a ‘conspiracy theory’, it has to involve a conspiracy - a secret coordinated plan. Of the examples you gave, the only ones that may have been labeled a conspiracy theory by anybody at any point in time was the Wuhan lab leak theory, which is really a perfect example of a conspiracy theory - you have a theory that a conspiracy has taken place. Unlike most conspiracy theories, the lab leak one is plausible (though still seems unlikely) because the Chinese government is one of the few governments capable of covering up something like that. Unfortunately, we’ll probably never know.
I think your friend’s meme is spot on.