#Pizzagate

[Mister Agenda]

Bolded mine.  What's bigger?  There's nothing here, just ridiculous fever dreams of anti-Clinton fanatics and internet trolls.  If this is such a huge story, then why don't you go out and do some investigatory journalism, unless you yourself lack the integrity that you accuse us of missing.

Or hey how about you take a look at the snopes I linked and let me know what you think of that, for a start.

I did, they didn't seriously adress any of the evidence. They reconised one picture, and dismissed the entire case! They rip the evidence out of context and ofcourse it's going to make it look radical. Then it goes on to explain it's orgions again not taking a seruous look at the evidence. Furthermore they quote an interview bewtween the shop owner claiming his innocince... Okay... Are you going to take his word for it like that? Is that we are all trained to do as intiliectual idividuals? NO. We INVESTIGATE, and come up with our own conclusions.

So this guy takes his gun to this pizza place that's supposed to have a pedophile ring in the basement to 'self-investigate', shoots up the place a bit, and it didn't even have a basement.

Why are you taking this seriously? Investigate the case? There's not even evidence that there is a case to investigate.

What skeptics are trained to do (hopefully) is to evaluate claims rationally in light of the available evidence and assign degree of acceptance in proportion to plausibility. In this case, the odds that internet 'detectives' looking for confirmation of their worst prejudices found codes where there are none is very high, and the odds that they are right merely by coincidence (since their methodology is the opposite of how you reach a justified conclusion) is very low. Plus, they've already been proven wrong about an essential aspect of the story: the basement where it was supposed to be happening doesn't even exist. It was completely made up.