Are there any conspiracy theories that you just think could have an element of truth?

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I love all things conspiracy theory - from a psychological/social point of view it's interesting to see what makes people fearful or pessimistic.

But I often do see some conspiracy theories a bit like Urban legends in that they could be an exaggerated truth.

Are there any conspiracy theories or rumours that you just think 'maybe...' or even ones you're completely sold on.

hopes nobody thinks the Queen is a metamorphic lizard alien

There's a 99 year lock on the Dunblane inquest findings. Suggestions of a far reaching peadophilia web.

@SuePerbly could you please PM the theory, thanks.

Yes Beyond that "no direct flights in the southern hemisphere" was a super-weird one (which I had never heard before) and now I see the original person who mentioned it has apologised for being wrong (duh!) but not given a hint of where it came from. If people will believe that (which it would take literal two seconds looking for flights on Goggle or any search site to disprove) then what else will they believe to be "factual"??!!

My sil believes that most Hollywood A listers are transgendered. She says that its gone on for decades. Even Marilyn Monroe. They all use surrogates for their fake pregnancies, she said you can tell because all of them are super slim immediately after giving birth.

MM was a man? 🙄

MM was a man? 🙄

Lol, when she came out with that I literally burst out laughing, but she’s convinced she’s right. She goes on about shoulder/hip ratios, and other crazy stuff.

Has she not seen the nudie pics of Marilyn? Is she getting mixed up with the other Marilyn (80s pop star)?

9/11

Princess Diana

Celebrities may use surrogates, but I don't think they're all transgender! Celebrities do have the uncanny special ability to give birth at an advanced age and also to produce girl/boy twins.

Celebrities used to adopt on the Hollywood starlet days - I assume so 1) they wouldn’t lose their figures, 2) to hide the fact that their hearth throb husbands were actually gay, and/or 3) because they had shaved 20 years off their ages).

Now they have surrogates for point 1, possibly 3 and ‘because they can’.

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There are many conspiracy theorists online which can entertain the imagination. I don’t think we were told the entire truth that’s what I’m saying. Don’t want to be spreading my beliefs since they’re assumptions. But it’s what I believe !

The cure for cancer conspiracy theory annoys me.

For a start, the chances of a universal cure are pretty slim. They would have to find cures for each type.

Secondly, the sheer number of people involved in this kind of research is SOO huge that I don't see how it could ever be effectively kept secret. (incidentally, that's why so many conspiracy theories fail - the idea that literally 1000s of people are all happily keeping a secret displays a complete lack of understanding of human nature. That someone was murdered by a small group of people at the command of an individual or another small group - fine. But that 1000s if not 1000000s of scientists are keeping this secret? Not so much).

Third, the idea that they are doing it because they want to make money off chemo etc. The first company to come up with a proper cure for any kind of cancer, and patent it, can sell it for a LOT of money for a LONG time to a LOT of people.

I have heard, and can believe, that the R&D costs of curing cancer may be so high that firms are resistant. Similarly, I know that they often invest a lot of R&D (but less than involved in a whole new cure) in creating minor variations of existing treatments for all kinds of diseases because these can then be patented, allowing the profits of those treatments to continue long past the original patent period.

I know some stuff that is currently just conspiracy theories. That is literally all I can say. Sorry.

Also British and US foreign policy with regards to war..

I think going into Iraq was a deliberate mistake.. and Afghanistan. And many interventions in Muslim majority countries.

Oil, and setting up bases against the soviets... disguised under “war on terror”. And Middle Easterns seem to be cheap blood.

Sorry! Imma firm believer.

I know some stuff that is currently just conspiracy theories. That is literally all I can say. Sorry.

okaaay.

Lots of celebs use donor eggs.

@BeyondOverTheMoon not being the one who originally thought you couldn't fly directly between 2 Southern Hemisphere points, I'm only offering my thoughts .....

Part of the issue of CT in general is that none of us are experts, or even mildly knowledgable about everything. And the majority of time it doesn't matter - I'm no civil or structural engineer so have no idea how buildings stay up or re 9/11 how they "should" burn or collapse or maintain integrity.

99.9% of the time it still doesn't matter .... but take a 9/11 event and somehow we're amateur experts. When it doesn't add up to us - who knew nothing in the first place, we're intrigued. Then when you get 2 "experts" who seem to contradict themselves, who do I trust if the supposed experts don't agree. Then the CT develops.

But, every day there'll be a building collapse or fire or explosion that never makes it to the mainstream news, so I never hear about it, so I never have cause to query it, so no CT.

So for the flights ..... if you'd heard that no flights exist on those routes, it's reasonable to believe at first because you've no reason not to believe someone you trust who told you that. Only if it sounds untrue and / or you've reason to research it (because you want to fly from Cape Town to Perth or Rio) would you learn it's not true, or not totally true, or there's some truth.

Making an assumption here, but perhaps you hear that there's no direct flights between two specific places in Southern Hemisphere which may indeed be true - and you file that away as "no direct flights anywhere in SH". Only when someone challenges you, do you find out different.

Oil, and setting up bases against the soviets... disguised under “war on terror”. And Middle Easterns seem to be cheap blood

I'd say that's too widely accepted to be a conspiracy theory.

Celebrities do have the uncanny special ability to give birth at an advanced age and also to produce girl/boy twins.

Absolutely right, and sometimes even without the slightest appearance of ever being pregnant with twins.

That someone close to Farage set up/recruited the milkshaker to

Deflect from the PayPal foreign funding scandal

Add weight to the “remainers are betraying democracy” tropes

@BishopBrennansArse I don't suppose you could pm me?

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Utter rubbish. Paul Crowther has been arrested for two charges of assault over the milk shake incident and as well as being vile he is a Labour voter. He claims he works for sky so hopefully he’ll be sacked as well.

As regards Hollywood. I do think that they have an agenda against women in general. They show us all these stick thin celebs who are still stick thin after giving birth, and expect us all to believe it's down to will power and hardly eating. when half the time they haven't even given birth. Why do they all have such effortless pregnancies 🤔 It's all done to make women feel bad about their bodies?