Posted by rippon on August 28, 2020, 8:25 pm, in reply to "Re: "disinformation""
"there's no real point in me wasting my time visiting crank hoax sites"
No one's asking you to.
I'm saying, I think A because I've read/watched source B.
People may or may not be interested in what I think.
If they are interested in what I think, they may or may not be in interested to see what has led me to think that, and they may be interested to read it themselves.
But what people are often doing is simply saying that something is crap because it can be connected with this other (allegedly) crap thing; they are not saying, It is crap because this is where the content/logic breaks down.