Caught my neighbor listening to that 'chemtrails are real' podcast at 2am

I was pulling into my driveway around midnight after a long shift and heard this guy on his porch with headphones muttering about barium and aluminum in the water supply around Phoenix. He was citing some specific study from a dude named Dr. Edward Hendricks from 2018 that supposedly proved the government is seeding clouds. I mean, I get being skeptical of weather modification programs, but that podcast had some wild leaps in logic. Has anyone else stumbled across that specific episode or the Hendricks study and checked the sources?

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diana2029d ago

Back when I was looking into cloud seeding stuff for a school project, I actually tried to track down that Hendricks study. Turned out the dude had his research published in a pay-to-play journal that nobody in real academia takes seriously, plus his 'sample' was just water from his own backyard. Another thing that helped me was checking out actual NOAA reports on weather modification - way more boring but at least they cite real data. The 2am listening habit probably says more about how hyped up and entertainment-focused that podcast is than any real evidence.

the_karen14d ago

Honestly, why do people keep giving these podcast grifters the benefit of the doubt? Ngl, that whole "2am listening" thing is creepy shady anyway, like they know their audience won't fact check when half asleep. Tbh, the real story here is how much effort goes into debunking stuff that shouldn't need debTunking in the first place. You did the homework on that Hendricks guy, and surprise surprise, it's just backyard water and a fake journal. That's the pattern with all these podcasts peddling "hidden knowledge." They count on nobody digging past the first Google result.

jessica_hall4929d ago

Yeah, spotted that same pattern with conspiracy stuff - the shinier the packaging, the emptier the box.