“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

Thank you for an interesting but astigmatic study of collective paranoia and obsession.

The quotation that you use (above ) is correct in general, but you know as well as I do that you are playing upon the old-fashioned sense of "men," which in the quotation you lean upon so heavily really means "people": men AND women collectively. 

You don't seem to realize it, but in your own way you yourself are among a certain group of "people" who have "gone mad" in a "herd."  Everything that you have seen (or have NOT seen or tasted or smelled or sensed or herd) is as true of you as of the Pizzagate people.

What you write gives off the acrid odour of obsession. 

I hope that you will somehow get outside yourself and your "herd" and "recover your senses." 

Please get off your hobby-horse and enjoy the world -- ALL of it.