While I'm grateful for you for putting so much effort in this, and I certainly thank you for that, I think it's unfortunate and dangerous that you dedicated 6 pages (almost 10% of the entire book) to a Katy Perry video that isn't and cannot be confirmed to have anything to do with this. It's incredibly easy to discredit the entire investigation just based on this, and I think it would be in our best interest for you to remove that part entirely. Even as someone who doesn't doubt Pizzagate is real, I feel that the speculations around that music video are farfetched, and a good example of confirmation bias.
I think you are exaggerating - the ENTIRE investigation is not discredited because of pizzagate images being embedded in pop culture. However, I do agree that it could just be mentioned without as much space devoted to it, and other more relevant art put in. There is plenty of that to fill up five pages.
I agree with @wecanhelp that to a newcomer the way this information is presented is immensely important on supporting the veracity of these claims. I think more than enough dirt in the form of verifiable facts has been discovered: the suppression of news on Norway, the destruction of "Conspiracy of Silence" tapes, the sketchy shell companies, inappropriate instagram posts, etc.
The problem is when the author places their speculation and assumptions on the same level as these facts it lessens the credibility of those true, verifiable facts. We need to grow the pizzagate army, and whenever our claims seem crazy and unbelievable to outsiders we need to be very careful to only present information that we know is true and not anything that needs more investigating. If we let confirmation bias continue without scrutiny then to outsiders they will see a witch hunt and nothing will come of this movement.
Another important point is that all memes and introductory material must emphasize the nonpartisan nature of the investigation/allegations. Too many people think this is just a conspiracy to attack the democrats. Too many investigators let their vendetta against the democrats impact their language. If we don't fix these problems we won't be able to unify against this great evil.
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wecanhelp ago
While I'm grateful for you for putting so much effort in this, and I certainly thank you for that, I think it's unfortunate and dangerous that you dedicated 6 pages (almost 10% of the entire book) to a Katy Perry video that isn't and cannot be confirmed to have anything to do with this. It's incredibly easy to discredit the entire investigation just based on this, and I think it would be in our best interest for you to remove that part entirely. Even as someone who doesn't doubt Pizzagate is real, I feel that the speculations around that music video are farfetched, and a good example of confirmation bias.
VieBleu ago
I think you are exaggerating - the ENTIRE investigation is not discredited because of pizzagate images being embedded in pop culture. However, I do agree that it could just be mentioned without as much space devoted to it, and other more relevant art put in. There is plenty of that to fill up five pages.
GenghisSean ago
I agree with @wecanhelp that to a newcomer the way this information is presented is immensely important on supporting the veracity of these claims. I think more than enough dirt in the form of verifiable facts has been discovered: the suppression of news on Norway, the destruction of "Conspiracy of Silence" tapes, the sketchy shell companies, inappropriate instagram posts, etc.
The problem is when the author places their speculation and assumptions on the same level as these facts it lessens the credibility of those true, verifiable facts. We need to grow the pizzagate army, and whenever our claims seem crazy and unbelievable to outsiders we need to be very careful to only present information that we know is true and not anything that needs more investigating. If we let confirmation bias continue without scrutiny then to outsiders they will see a witch hunt and nothing will come of this movement.
Another important point is that all memes and introductory material must emphasize the nonpartisan nature of the investigation/allegations. Too many people think this is just a conspiracy to attack the democrats. Too many investigators let their vendetta against the democrats impact their language. If we don't fix these problems we won't be able to unify against this great evil.
wecanhelp ago
This is a very important comment, much better put than any of mine on the subject. If you guys read one comment, read this one.