Mesmerising story that reinforces just how important belief and community is over facts. If the framework of your belief is suspicion and you find a community of people selecting and interpreting facts to fit your truth, how can you let go? Particular if you are the guy elevated to celebrity status who brought this narrowly fixated slice of people together?
Community trumps science, with "new science".
Still don't quite get how they explained away the global flight tracking though.