>"I haven't bothered to read, but I'm dismissing it as a conspiracy theory"

I hope you can appreciate the problems with that reasoning.

Yes, there are costs involved in data collection. If the data is valuable, organizations will foot those costs. We've seen this in the tech sphere. Why is it hard to imagine it in the health/biosecurity realm?

We are attempting to discuss the topic. Dismissing the speaker out of hand because he sounds a certain way isn't helpful. Similarly, dismissing an article because it "sounds like conspiracy theory" isn't helpful.

There's a bit irony there.