You make all good points. Although AJ is not my cup of tea, I'm glad that people like him exist to voice "conspiracy theories" and ruffle the establishment's feathers. Even if his theories are often largely just speculation, turn out to be false, and/or peppered with disinformation, they can contain grains of truth that we might not otherwise hear. So long as we recognize the highly speculative nature and potential pitfalls of what AJ & similar sources have to say, and so long as we continue to think critically and independently, then these sources can assist our search for truth by expanding our supply of ideas.