[ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
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> *>…Well ... some people don't know much. Let's do some historical research
> and divide Americans from January 2020 into two groups: *
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> *>…1) People who got their news primarily from Twitter/X, Breitbart and
> Fox.*
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> *>…2) People who got their news primarily from Science, Nature and The New
> York Times.*
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> *>…You'll find that people from group #2 were FAR more likely to live
> through the next 2 years without dying from Covid than people from
> group #1. Why is that? Because ignorance can be lethal, although people
> from group #1 wouldn't explain it that way, they would say the only reason
> it's true is because reality has a liberal bias…*
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> *Do let us explore that theory, shall we?  I disagree, for in my world,
> reality has a libertarian/moderate bias.  Let us compare news sources
> FoxNews with CNN, the usual poster child examples of American right vs
> left.*
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> *According to US TVDataBase, FoxNews in March 2022 was 2,499,000 and
> latest data available, June 2026 with 2,223,000*
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> *In March of 2022, CNN averaged 889,000 viewers.  In June 2026*
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2022 to 2026 is not 2020 to any other time period.  The height of the
pandemic was in 2020; by 2022, the immediate deaths had already happened
(by definition of "immediate" being "in 2020").
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