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You don't understand! Orange man bad, "birds of a feather flock together", ergo orange man's associates are bad. Ergo anything they say or support must also be bad, it's simple common sense.

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Or perhaps a non peer reviewed paper funded by an organisation that is rabidly anti-Chinese needs to have its claims scrutinised heavily.

No less than any paper funded by any organisations in China, which are rabidly anti-anything-that-could-reflect-badly-on-the-government.

Quite possibly, but that's a world away from your original (and I'm paraphrasing here) "everyone thinks orange man and his associates are bad" comment.

We do seem to agree that proper scrutiny of claims is important.

That's a stretch. Steve Bannon has earned his reputation quite well outside his (rather brief) association with Trump.

Yes, for running conservative media outlets, and since 2016 there's been a concerted push from the left to tar any media supporting political views that aren't left-of-centre as conspiracy theories. He also commited fraud to enrich himself, but that doesn't mean every scientific paper connected to him is necessarily invalid.

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