SpecialEd,
DISMISSING ANY assertion W/O evidence that the assertion is false, does NOT make the person LOOK intelligent, imVho. - "Hitchens Razor" like most such sayings (Occam's Razor being another such case.) is frequently WORTHLESS to a search for truth.
SADLY, based on my personal "in the field" experience in police intelligence operations, even HIGHLY UNLIKELY information is frequently CORRECT. - It pays to look into such things for yourself IF a person wants the TRUTH.
(Even 5 years ago MOST people TRUSTED the FBI & would have "dismissed" the assertion that the FBI Director & his "close circle of confederates" are THROUGHLY CORRUPT, ROUTINELY LIE under oath, manufacture "evidence" & knowingly FRAME innocent people for imaginary crimes as a LUNATIC "conspiracy theory" but that was before we all found out how 100% CORRUPT that the "leadership" of the agency was/IS.)
ADDENDA: About 4 years ago WHAT SERIOUS person of at least "reasonably normal IQ" would have believed that virtually ALL of the so-called "mainstream media", the "deep state", the Democrat Party, the Hollywood "celebrities", most of "academia", the east/west coast "social elites" & many other public/private agencies would "get together" to attempt a coordinated coup to remove a President Elect of the USA, even before 20JAN17??
(To quote Mark Twain, "There are many things that, if written as fiction, would expose the author to well-deserved public ridicule BUT there is nothing that could not have actually occurred." = In 2020, I often think of Mr. Twain's wise observation.)
yours, sw