[dayglored]

> ...one sentence analysis of how to handle trouble “ I just closes my eyes ‘til it goes away.”

Oh, I'm not suggesting that such articles ("improbable" to the point of "almost certainly false") should be ignored. The question is whether such articles contribute to FreeRepublic in a positive, informative, useful, humorous, or other worthy manner.

Fringe opinions on scientific matters sometimes prove true eventually, but not many do. Lots of them show up in the Weekly World News.

Heck, for many years I had a subscription to the Weekly World News, because that was the only place that certain types of offbeat stories got published, alongside the obviously fake ones.

[old curmudgeon]

I admit that the story has to be verified before anyone panics.

But don't forget that every single big news story of today started out as a “nut case tin hat conspiracy story, fron the story about Trump and Russia to Hunter's laptop.

All spots contrary to the government lies were called crazy nutcase tin hat, etc.

And today almost everyone realizes that the truth about wu-flu, the CDC and Pfizer is very close to those earlier stories and even worse in their damage to the country.