No, Nero, it's not a religion, but excuse us if we're sceptical about the sceptics, like the afore-mentioned Dr William Gray (retired), because his credentials and his theories move around on some thin ice sometimes. The fact that it was presented with glee in a right-wing denier paper is just the ice on the cake, as it were....
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