FatPhil
Senior Member.
Recently I've encountered links to what seem to be CTs regarding morgellons/nanobots/worms in disposable face masks, and it would be nice to be able to respond with something more concrete than the adhom of "he's a known loon!" (addressed to both the poster of the links, and the presenter of the video). I watched a bunch of the videos, and in almost all of them, all I see is a dark fibre only partly within the weave of the mask itself. Most don't move at all, and almost of the ones that do, "responding to the heat and moisture" (a paraphrase, but the jist of claims repeatedly made), seem to be just being blown, nothing weird or worthy of mention at all. Just a couple have elicited a "ooh, that's curious" response, but those movements have almost always been reversed precisely, like a rigid object elastically responding to a temporary load - sometimes eliciting claims like "unnatural movement, more like a nanobot than something living" (again, a paraphrase). Some have called them "synthetic worms", I'm not sure what that even means.
Alas I don't remember which claims came from which vids, or even which vids I saw now, but the poster of the links is persisting, so I've resurrected the idea of debunking him. Here are the some of the ones I remember seeing:
In English:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOixDzQi90
<- Max Igan, I think he should be well-known round these parts
In German:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9x428LigZ8
In some presumably eastern-european tongue:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YlKwWIo57o
I'm surprised this hasn't popped up on others' radars yet, it seems to be the CT meme of the week where I hang out. Sorry about the sloppiness of the presentation of the claims, as I said this is a hasty resurrection of a many-days-old idea.
I've not yet seen anyone take a higher-power microscope to one of these things to show what they really are. Even if the answer is face-palmingly dumb, I still think it would be useful to have conclusions here on MB, as metabunk is pretty google-friendly.
Alas I don't remember which claims came from which vids, or even which vids I saw now, but the poster of the links is persisting, so I've resurrected the idea of debunking him. Here are the some of the ones I remember seeing:
In English:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOixDzQi90
<- Max Igan, I think he should be well-known round these parts
In German:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9x428LigZ8
In some presumably eastern-european tongue:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YlKwWIo57o
I'm surprised this hasn't popped up on others' radars yet, it seems to be the CT meme of the week where I hang out. Sorry about the sloppiness of the presentation of the claims, as I said this is a hasty resurrection of a many-days-old idea.
I've not yet seen anyone take a higher-power microscope to one of these things to show what they really are. Even if the answer is face-palmingly dumb, I still think it would be useful to have conclusions here on MB, as metabunk is pretty google-friendly.