Of all the characters propagating space-related scams on the internet, by far the most damaging is Ben Davidson and his channel Suspicious0bservers. Beyond his status as a lawyer-turned-grifter selling apocalypse-flavored pseudoscience for cash, he regularly charges up and mobilizes a cult-like group of drones who are easily swayed by his confident word salads, and take his ramblings as ultimate truth without exercising any independent thought. Despite zero training, Ben and his "observers" consider themselves on the cutting edge of half a dozen fields, which of course culminate in doom coming from the sky in 2046, because science. It is genuinely not much of a stretch to call Ben a cult leader, and cults are bad, so I decided to expose this one top to bottom. From the daily barrage of lies on YouTube to the inner workings of his Kickstarter scams, let's see exactly what Ben is, shall we?

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December 9th Paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...
December 12th Paper 1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05252.pdf
December 12th Paper 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.04889.pdf
December 7th Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
December 6th Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

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