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Antonis Schroeter’s “Tik Talk” program on Alpha with the central theme of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and the deniers of the mask and the pandemic, was shown on Thursday night (10/29).
However, the channel changed its mind at the last minute and thankfully decided not to show it at all.
Invited to the show would be … doctors, who deny the existence or death of the virus, illustrious people who believe that behind the pandemic the “satanic plans” of the great powers against humanity dominate, among them the singer Grigoris Petrakos. On the other hand, the teacher Infectious disease specialist Nikos Sypsas would be called in to refute the arguments of the conspiracy theorists one by one.
A few hours before the scheduled broadcast time of the program, Grigoris Petrakos published a 20-minute video on his personal social media accounts, in which he presented an alleged “investigation” he did on the coronavirus and its results, which ended in Conclusion that the virus is not deadly, that our governments are mocking us, that this is a global plan to trample human freedom and various other theories circulating among the so-called “sprayed.”
A “search” with Google navigation data, with numbers of several articles. from Greek and international websites, with some touches from the EODY site, with sparse graphics and with lots of conspiracy theories. It is known, after all, What years of study and research, can be turned to dust by a singeras long as you have a fast internet connection.
Despite the thousands of video notifications on Facebook and the thousands of comments with “congratulations” to the singer, there were – fortunately again – strong reactions to the content of the material and the promotion of fake news on his part.
It seems that the storm of reactions was the reason that forced Alpha to finally “cut” the program, realizing that the channel would be in the “eye of the cyclone”. The problem, however, begins much earlier and, in particular, from the choice of the station to present such an issue, giving way to conspiracy theorists and coronavirus deniers, at a time when our country has 35,510 cases and 615 deaths.
It is dangerous, at a time when Greece, Europe and the entire planet are struggling to handle the second wave of the coronavirus, at a time when ICUs cannot respond to the health crisis, at a time when the NSS is crumbling. day by day, at a time when citizens mourn their own people, at a time when a great effort is being made to inform and protect the world, to project the worst enemy of all the above: semi-learning , conspiracy theories and fake news.
The logic that he would be on the Mr. Sypsas show, that he would refute the deniers’ arguments and “put things right,” makes it that much worse. Because, in this way, people who have nothing to do with health and who combine Internet statistics from their sofa are equated with serious scientists who have dedicated their lives to infectious diseases, medicine and real research.
When you treat two points of view as if they both have their “value,” then you are dangerously playing with the possibility that some gullible people will be sucked into criminal theories. We have experimented again with the “cancer frappies”, the “anti-vaccines”, the “Facebook handbags”, but also the presentation of the lifestyle of the Nazis in Greece.
Those who, of course, adopt “logics” like Petrakos and praised him for his effort to “wake up the world”, after the cut of the program spoke of censorship. But conspiracy theories are not an opposing point of view or opinion that needs to be raised on serious questions, but dangerous rhetoric that can have devastating effects on all of us, conspiracy theorists included.
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