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Date: March 14, 2024 09:14AM
That's the problem with conspiracy theories.
Remember the Y2K / black helicopters / one world government /massive concentration camps in the desert / MIBs kidnapping people in their sleep to take them away to said camps to microchip them or implant alien technology fantasy?
It sounds ridiculous now, but there were people who actually thought (and acted) as if all of it were real ( see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory) )
No plan is perfect and people make mistakes -- but there simply is no credible motive for anti-vaccine hysteria. Notice I said hysteria, not caution.
Science is an open book for everyone to read, and there are a myriad of researchers. You'd have a plethora of people sounding the alarm instead of just a few cranks.
What would be the motive? That's another question the conspiracy theorists can't answer because there is no answer. Conspiracy theories are driven by fear, not reason. If there was some kind of vast global "conspiracy" for something, somebody would talk -- and not just one person. Same goes for UFOs, "one world government," fluoridation, or faux religion.
It's not so easy to keep secrets.
Here's a recent case.
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https://www.popsci.com/environment/sheep-hybrid-hunting/Please do not spend nearly a decade working to secretly clone endangered sheep in a bid to create giant Frankensheep hybrids for wealthy people to hunt for sport. It is very illegal, and the US government will make an example out of you.
Case in point: Arthur “Jack” Schubarth. The 80-year-old owner of a 215-acre “alternative livestock” ranch in Montana who the Justice Department reports pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes—conspiracy to violate, as well as “substantively violating” the Lacey Act, a law enacted in 1900 to combat illegal animal trafficking.
Located in Vaughn, Montana, Schubarth Ranch is what’s known as a shooting preserve or game ranch, where people pay exorbitant amounts to hunt captive, often exotic animals like mountain goats. Or, in this case, extremely large, never-before-seen hybrid supersheep derived from Central Asia’s Ovis ammon polii, or the Marco Polo argali.
Pulling it off apparently required serious scientific and international scheming. According to Justice Department officials, Schubarth secretly purchased “parts” of Marco Polo argali sheep from Kyrgyzstan in 2013, then arranged transportation of the biological samples to the US. Once here, Schubarth then tasked a lab to create embryo clones from the Marco Polo argali genetic material. These embryos were then implanted in ewes of a different sheep species on his farm, which eventually produced a pure male Marco Polo argali Schubarth crowned the “Montana Mountain King,” aka MMK.
From there, “other unnamed co-conspirators” alongside Schubarth artificially inseminated other ewes (also apparently of sheep species illegal in Montana) using MMK semen. All the while, the sheep scandal grew to include forged vet inspection certificates claiming the legality of their livestock, as well as even the sale of MMK’s semen to breeders in other states. According to court documents, sheep containing 25-percent Montana Mountain King genetics fetched as much as $15,000 per head. A son of MMK, dubbed Montana Black Magic, helped produce sheep worth around $10,000 each.
The genetic thievery wasn’t limited to Marco Polo argali, either. Court filings also show Schubarth pursued similar endeavors to amass genetic material harvested from Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, which he then also sold through interstate deals.” All of this, perhaps unsurprisingly, also violated state laws prohibiting the sale of game animal parts and the use of game animals on alternative livestock ranches.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2024 09:36AM by anybody.