Strategicgnomer

A lot of these people are scared or angry at authority. They distrust the government, "big pharma" anything that smells of "power". Thus anti-vax sentiment is an easy sell. Big pharma is just trying to sell you shit man! My sister is an anti-vaxxer, she'll go on about "hot shots" where she thinks some vaccines are contaminated and the government is paid to look the other way while thousands of children die horribly. And the news doesn't cover it because they're owned by the same people. And on you go down the rabbit hole. One thing leading to another all stemming from that basic distrust of authority.

I dunno, I saw veritasium show a guy doing that and it seemed to work. But I think they specified that it took ridiculously dry kindling and a long time to ignite plus he was experienced with making fires like that and to top it off there was no wind to blow it out before he could get the heat up high enough. But who knows.

Right, which is a way of narrowing the wealth gap while securing the future for citizens put out by automation.

In most cases, people hear about flat Earth theorists and react with contempt. Did you ever feel exasperation or frustration towards the people you were filming? How difficult was it to interact with people that have such an extreme view about the world?

Someone's real butthurt about being on the dumb side.