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New GOP Law in Iowa Banning Chemtrails
Yes, Iowa really are drafting a law to ban something that does not actually exist — Chemtrails.
High-flying aircraft leave long lasting condensation trails, and so fools have looked up for decades and concluded that those are all part of some nefarious plot to spray chemical agents on them.
What are the various claims?
There exists a vast array of whacky ideas such as — weather modification, psychological manipulation, human population control, and much much more.
You and I know that such claims are BS and so we simply roll our eyes or even laugh at the crazy claims.
So why do such crazy ideas get any traction?
Like many of the weird claims that pop up, there is a small nugget of reality that has been grasped hold of and transformed into something that is total fantasy. What is true is that attempts at weather modification via cloud seeding have been tried, with only minimal degrees of success, and even then the conditions for anything has to be just right.
A study conducted by the United States National Academy of Sciences failed to find statistically significant support for cloud seeding’s effectiveness. Based on its findings, Stanford University ecologist Jerry Bradley said: “I think you…
