Comment on rhetoric of: "YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME. HA HA HA!!"

I found a pretty amusing blogpost treating the topic of biological warfare. It is called "YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME. HA HA HA!!" - as soon as I read this title I knew it was gonna be a good one to comment on its rhetoric. So, here we go.

The rhetoric of this article was not convincing at all. The author wants to establish a certain connection to the reader by addressing him directly and by including himself in the audience. For me this does not really work, simply because of the way he is talking about his conspiracy theories. He does not support his poorly developed arguments with facts but with strange conspiracies. In addition to this, he himself says that he is no physician, government official or health official (even though not in this blogpost but in the About-section of his blog), which evokes the feeling that he has no clue about the topic. The author relies on a strong emotional appeal related to his credibility. He talks about numerous conspiracies, saying that should smallpox ever again occur in the U.S. it has to be a Russian attack. He also claims that certain varieties of flus were attacks as well, simply because of their similarity to other, already extinct, seasonal flus. Knowing that each seasonal flu subtype is different to the one that occurred in the year before I wonder why it should not be possible that one subtype resembles another one and how this could possibly work as an argument for the flu being a biological attack from whatever country. By using such poor arguments the author lost all his credibility immediately and I don't believe anything he says.