occams razor is a crucial part of scientific thinking for a reason

Holy shitballs. NO. Occam’s razor may lead you to a solution faster, but the scientific approach is to exhaust all possibilities. Occam’s razor implies the sun goes round the earth. It is not scientific.

you can’t possibly consider everything everyone says

Of course you can. You may assign it a credibility of almost 0, but you can still consider a theory. In science this process is decentralized and heavily delegated.

if what they are saying keeps changing as they see fit.

Then they become even less credible.

i will not spend a single heartbeat thinking about another “proof” that the earth is flat.

Well, at least you were open enough to consider one argument.

Honestly, I was on board with the lizard people right up to the point David Ike insisted that it wasn’t a metaphor.