[Brian Swartz]

Serious question: why does it matter who Q was/is? The problem is the number of people buying into it. The way to combat this kind of thing is to do a better job of inoculating society against nonsense, not to pretend that we're ever going to be able, in the internet age for goodness sake, to stamp out opportunistic people who spout conspiracist hogwash. Or ignore the great damage that will and to a degree already is being caused by trying.