Abigail Suzanne
“Abby” Martin is an “investigative journalist”, presenter of The Empire Files,
and formerly host of Breaking the Set on the Russian network RT America.
A relatively well-known figure, Martin has been heavily involved in various
foundations and “documentaries”. She also claims to have grown weary of viewing
politics on a Left–Right axis, but what she offers is nevertheless more or less
a liberal version of Breitbart-style conspiracy mongering.
She was long a 9/11 truther who labeled the official story as government “propaganda”, saying of the attacks that “I’ve researched it for three years and every single thing that I uncover solidifies my belief that it was an inside job and that our
government was complicit in what happened,” where “research” in this
context means trawling conspiracy theory websites guided by confirmation bias
and motivated reasoning.
In fairness, she
has said that she “no longer subscribes”
to the idea that 9/11 was an inside job, but even if she doesn’t there are
plenty of conspiracy theories she does subscribe
to. For instance, Martin is an important promoter of conspiracies surrounding
water fluoridation,
and devoted at least one Breaking the Set show to the topic. Like so many
fluoridation conspiracy loons, Martin invoked studies showing the dangers of
fluoridation, neglecting completely the fact that those studies employed
dosages many times as high as would be physically possible for humans to get
exposed to through water. But as most chemically illiterate people, the rather
fundamental idea that the dose makes the poison remains beyond Martin’s grasp. She also ran various conspiracy theories
targeted at Monsanto,
the big bogeyman of liberal conspiracy theorists everywhere.
Diagnosis: Often
described as a spokesperson for the Millenial generation, Martin is probably at
best a specimen of Millenial conspiracy mongerers. Addle-brained fop. Don’t
listen to her.
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