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Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Newest nonsense: Directed energy weapons started the Texas wildfires

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Newest nonsense: Directed energy weapons started the Texas wildfires

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Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Directed energy weapons didn’t start Texas wildfires

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After wildfires broke out in Texas, the largest in the state’s history, a familiar conspiracy theory began circulating o

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