The next best thought out knowledge-based site is StackExchange.
- Antifa did the coup.
- Face masks are harmful.
- There have been "almost zero" deaths from COVID-19.
- Soros may have paid people to riot for George Floyd.
- The Ten Commandments were God's words: not "inspired", but precisely dictated. [2]
Since Wikipedia is hostile to conspiracy theories and religious woo, Larry has in the ensuing years tried (without success) to make a Wikipedia-equivalent site that will be friendly to his nuttery.
I was clued into this when the BLM protests happened. When I poked into all the names of the protesters I could find who were present on-site, very few of them had day jobs.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger#Views_on_Rational...
> Besides being the cofounder of one of the biggest websites on the Internet, he is mostly known for two things; criticising Wikipedia, and having created many failed WikiProjects to fix said criticisms.
This writing is fine penmanship for a 2nd grader about why I hate Kevin and his Pokemon cards.
Searching that sentence verbatim on Google produces, as a first result, a paper on the National Library of Medicine [1] that states in its abstract:
> Extended mask-wearing by the general population could lead to relevant effects and consequences in many medical fields.
How is that a conspiracy theory? At most, you can argue that it's not absolutely conclusive or that other studies reach different conclusions. But that's far from declaring something a conspiracy theory.
Heaven forbid! It's almost comical how certain people furrow for the tiniest of cherries to support their antivaxx, antimask knee jerking while their bodies get submitted to a gauntlet of health risks from contracting COVID.
Flu shots are indeed a vaccine.
I think you're confused by the word "immunity". In the medical sense, it doesn't mean "invincibility". It's a reference to the immune system!
Your original argument was that this is a conspiracy theory, and it isn't.
> As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health.
That's a banner at the top of the page.
Science is not done by consensus or endorsement. Studies must be refuted on scientific grounds.
Studies that disagree with your opinion are not conspiracy theories.
I think some people consider information contrary to that communicated by government officials to be conspiracy theory: If the government didn't tell us the truth about something, they conspired to tell us something untrue.
By this definition of conspiracy theory, anybody who is not a conspiracy theorist is credulous. I proudly call myself a conspiracy theorist AKA skeptic.
There's also the whole way the software works. So that's twice that Wikipedia owes Ward Cunningham.
Well, that and the most important exchange of all of course:
"My question, to this esteemed Wiki community, is this: Do you think that a Wiki could successfully generate a useful encyclopedia? -- JimboWales [a]
Yes, but in the end it wouldn't be an encyclopedia. It would be a wiki. -- WardCunningham [b]" [2]
[2] https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiPedia