Tenacity
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First point. Why would you feel afraid of the the article or simply what made you feel "afraid" ?
Second point. So anything that makes a fear response should be categorized as not being a trustworthy source of information ? I don't think thats a good response. Things should be categorized as not being a trustworthy source of information when there is no evidence to back up the claims. Having a false sense of security it probably more damaging then being one hundred percent wrong.
I don't think anyone has really gone off the deep end with trying to tie it to conspiracy. Someone posted the possibility of Russia having access of the knowledge pertaining to Abiogenetic petroleum. It's possible but not very clear. Your not really being specific on what you are referring to.
I mentioned at the bottom of the post that it wasn't this particular article in question, but whoever is hosting that article has posted some interesting albeit fear-mongering articles on things such as trans-humanism.
I should have elaborated that such a response indicates that it is less likely to be a trustworthy source. Fear is only induced when a certain agenda is put forth. Scientifically testable facts aren't scary. Agenda-driven information is more biased than non-agenda-driven information, and thus the latter is more trustworthy than the former. This has nothing to do with whether the information itself is actually correct. We should not have a false sense of security of scientifically testable facts, you're right. But I prefer not to be kept up at night fretting over whether or not the government is trying to hack my brain or enslave me (again, not in this article, but in the articles on the site this article is hosted).
If you read the articles I've mentioned thus far you'll see conspiracy. I apologise that I came across as non-specific, but I did say at the beginning of my post that it did not necessarily pertain to the topic at hand. I was trying to explain why 3ball seemed to trust Peat more than threads posted in this particular sub-forum - and when the sub-forum's name is 'conspiracy theories', can you really blame them?