Conspiracy theorists often sound rational, such as this video. He makes a good point that people simply dismiss their evidence ("you shouldn't say that") without taking the time to determine the truth.
I want to discuss why.
Was the US presidential election hacked? My morning thoughts\u2026 https://t.co/dg7eMfv7al
— Jeremy Cioara (@CioaraJeremy) December 31, 2020
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No. It's just a misuse of the OSINT tool named SpiderFoot. Such tools aggressively look for POSSIBLE relationships between things, but is not by itself evidence. It's simply the start looking for evidence.
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The thing to remember is that this rational effort to determine the truth is debunking something where no effort was made originally by the other side to determine the truth.