“Some members of the Trump administration have pushed a fringe theory ...”
Unlike the totally accurate numbers and projections about the virus from people like Anthony Fauci. Or the non-fringe theory that “Russian hackers” got Trump elected. Or the non-fringe theory that Trump ... something something ... Ukraine therefore, impeachment. Or the non-fringe theory that Biden is of sound mind and doesn’t have dementia (he does).
“Some members of the Trump administration have pushed a fringe theory ...”
Kind of like relativity theory or quantum theory or Boltzmann’s statistical thermodynamics. “Fringe theories” until they weren’t. That is science.