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One thing I found quite disturbing this week: I watched a factual YouTube video about this comet and what was being discovered about it, then I looked at the comments. There were many hundreds of comments and every single one was claiming the video was a cover-up for aliens. Many of them accused NASA of being a corrupt institution hiding the truth about aliens and called for the destruction of NASA. There was not a single comment on the science or even accepting that this was a comet. It was basically an angry mob calling for attacks on scientists for covering up "the truth". The amount of ignorant fury in the comments was shocking.
I know YouTube comments are hardly representative of the population as a whole, but not to find even one comment that wasn't angry and paranoid was worrying.
Yeah, to so many people just about anything is evidence for some conspiracy, and the lack of evidence is even more evidence. It's so frustrating.