I spent three months trying to find a real source for that '5G causes covid' claim

It started when a friend kept sending me videos about it, so I decided to track down the original study or report. I looked through old news articles, searched academic databases, and even tried to find the supposed 'whistleblower' doctor everyone quoted. After about 90 hours of digging, the closest I got was a blog post from 2020 that just linked to another blog. How does a story with zero proof get that big? Has anyone else actually found a solid source for a popular conspiracy, or is it always just a dead end?

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victorw541mo ago

Man, that sounds like my attempt to find who started the "birds aren't real" thing as a joke. Ended up just proving I have too much time on my hands.

cora_west51mo ago

Actually read a deep dive about that whole birds aren't real thing last week. The article said it basically started as a college campus prank that just blew up online. Makes you wonder how many of these jokes just take on a life of their own, right? Kinda proves your point, victorw54, about how chasing the source can be a total rabbit hole. Sometimes the internet just loves a weird story too much to care where it came from.

casey3421mo ago

Three months is a long time to chase a ghost. I figure if there was a real source, someone like victorw54 would have found it by now. These things spread because people want them to be true, not because they are.

ray_burns25d ago

Yeah casey342, that's the whole internet now.