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Trump is going to start a nuclear war.

In the mid-to-late 2000's myself and small band of Twitter users united under the #atheist hashtag, to discuss the lies and misinformation being spread on that then relatively new kid on the social media block by conspiracy theorists.  It was a more innocent time, when everyone knew Sarah Palin was mad, and anyone who said otherwise was just as easy to spot.  Of these occasionally hilarious, often mind-numbingly incoherent exchanges, between those of us championing simple rationalism, versus those with a penchant for bullshit, grew a relatively popular podcast, called Fundamentally Flawed, and it's community of contributors organised via the now defunct Google Plus. A firm favourite from the non-rational side of the equation was a self-styled biblical science communicator and spell-check averse man of Jesus named Joe Cienkowski.  Joe was my first direct experience of someone so entrenched in the world of religion-based pseudoscience and anti-government conspiracy theor...