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[QUOTE="Get a Job, post: 3299875, member: 9775"]
Your post is too incoherent to merit a response, but you have inspired a rant.

The post above is a perfect example of the aspect of conspiracy theories and amateur explanations for unexplained phenomena that drives me insane. Laymen grasp onto pieces of technical and/or scientific information (i.e. plasma is a thing) about which they know little or nothing. Then that tidbit which, on its own, is perfectly factual somehow becomes evidence of a claim to which it does not apply at all. (i.e. Plasma exists, so that is what aliens and ghosts are.) Someone with even a rudimentary understanding of the field from which he or she took the information would realize that it has no explanatory power in regards to the claim.

Come on people! If you read about something new and you don't understand it completely, learn more about it before you use it as a basis for an explanation for some occurrence. Otherwise you are just creating or perpetuating conspiracies and/or pseudoscience. At its most benign, this fosters a more gullible and stupid population. At its worst, it can kill people (the anti-vax movement is a vivid example of this).
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