Jason Kissner is a criminologist
and birther who has made his presence well known on various conspiracy websites with his
apparently unique take on the birther conspiracy: Kissner claims that Obama is
really Indonesian and (of course) a Muslim. In fact, Obama is apparently the
son of a cult leader, one Mohammed Subud, since Obama and Sudub, according to
conspiracy theorists, look kind of similar in pictures (that they admit to have
modified to make the resemblance more obvious to the untrained eye). Kissner
has written about these issues for the interestingly named (a corollary of
this)
website American Thinker;
you can find his critical thinking trainwreck about Obama here;
it’s rather hilarious.
In addition to his birther stuff,
Kissner has made himself known with his Ebola conspiracies – a topic that seems
to have generated a whole conspiracy industry back in 2014.
According to Kissner, the 2013 outbreak was apparently due to a bioengineered
variant of Ebola that is more contagious than previous strains. His evidence is
simply an argument from incredulity,
based on the fact that Ebola reemerged after being dormant for years and that
the Zaire strain that appeared in West Africa is a distinct strain, which
Kissner cannot imagine could have happened without human intervention. Kissner
is not an epidemiologist.
That’s to put things diplomatically. In any case, Kissner concludes that US
bioterrorism must have introduced this “new” Ebola strain to Guinea. Why? Well,
it has to do with the Ebola drug ZMapp; according to Kissner, the developers of
ZMapp must have known about the new strain beforehand. Once again, Kissner is
no epidemiologist and really doesn’t appear to have the faintest clue how these
things work. More elaborate discussion here.
Diagnosis: Hilarious nonsense, and one does sometimes
suspect he’s a poe. But when you consider what this kind of thinking has managed
to lead to by 2017, it does admittedly become a bit less funny.
Interesting conclusions about Obama. Few people know these facts from the life of the past president. But about Ebola here I have a lot of doubts because Kissner really is not an epidemiologist and is not competent to solve such problems. But this is only my student nurse resume writer subjective opinion.
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