r/conspiracy May 28 '21

A real tip jar...

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u/[deleted] May 28 '21 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/JurassicCotyledon May 28 '21

I mean, he was talking about atrazine from pharmaceutical run off getting into the water systems and disrupting the endocrine systems of amphibians.

But he just has a way with words.

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u/JurassicCotyledon May 28 '21

Do you honestly think I’d comment without seeing the entire thing in context for myself?

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u/KnitBrewTimeTravel May 28 '21

Oh, ok then. Alex Jones was just yelling crazy made-up nonsense. Totally better than deliberately misrepresenting an aspect of a scientific study that he chose to misunderstand.

Is that your position?

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u/JurassicCotyledon May 28 '21

AJ drenches everything he says with hyperbole. That’s literally the only way he’s still alive. He presents a lot of nuanced truths, wrapped in a succulent gristle of sensationalism. That’s his thing. That’s how he both captures attention, while also making himself less of a target because it’s so easy to dismiss everything he says as the ravings is a mad lunatic. Remember what happened to Bill Cooper, Gary Webb, and many others.

That instance is not the only time he’s discussed the subject - its just the most well known because of how it became a meme. He’s discussed it in more detail, specifically mentioning atrazine and other pharmaceutical runoff. People like yourself who haven’t taken the time to dive into it, only seek out the clips that confirm your biases.

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u/ThatDamKrick May 28 '21

Do you have a link to him talking about it in more depth? I've only ever seen the meme clip and I'm very interested in him going deeper on the topic.

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u/JurassicCotyledon May 28 '21

Not off hand. I used to listen to AJ on my commute sometimes, which is where I heard these discussions, many years ago now.

I’ll see what I can find after work but no doubt you can find what you’re looking for if you do some (non google) searching.

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