Betteridge's Law of Headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no." This suggests that if a publisher were confident in a positive answer, they would have stated it as a fact rather than posing it as a question.

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But that would mean that Matthew is not very confident in his positions, and is using these headlines as engagement hacks to direct a broader audience towards conspiratorial rabble rousing in what amounts to a ridiculously niche internet slapfight.

That's exactly what a skin suit would say.

Now that Matthew has disproved that law, why don't you make yourself useful Jameson and go update the Wikipedia page for it.

On that basis, here is a headline

"Jameson Lopp is a disengenuous retard"