What is your favourite conspiracy theory?
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julieca · 06/12/2021 21:38
I love the crazy conspiracy theories. So my favourite ones are that birds arent real and that Paul McCartney is dead and the man we see now is a lookalike.
What about you?
GrandTheftWalrus · 11/04/2022 15:03
Great thread
Laughingravy · 11/04/2022 00:50
@Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure
There was a fascinating discussion at the time with philosopher Alain De Botton. He thought a great deal of the anxiety about the missing airliner was down to our collective incomprehension that in this modern world a whole aircraft could go missing like that. In fact they can and one did. Away from the accepted flight routes there is no radar, no surveillance. The Indian ocean is mind bogglingly vast and little of it is monitored because there is nothing there. Only if you flew near the island of Diego Garcia, which is a US airbase would you attract attention. At the point the various systems, that normally tell the world where a civilian aircraft is using GPS and satellites, stopped transmitting flight 370 disappeared from sight. We only have a good idea of where it finally came to grief because an onboard satellite communication system automatically logged on to that system and responded to hourly status requests. It also acknowledged two ground-to-aircraft telephone calls were received but went unanswered.
Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure · 06/04/2022 22:46
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, I just don’t buy that a jet disappears into thin air, especially in this day and age with all the technology at our disposal....
Fodappadeee · 06/04/2022 22:41
That mumsnet is actually ran by dads desperate to understand the complex minds of women.
bottleofbeer · 23/01/2022 21:45
To say that all CTs are a load of shit is to say the powers that be always tell the truth. Of course some are ridiculous, but some won't be.
Ddot · 14/12/2021 22:03
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Laughingravy · 14/12/2021 21:54
@Ddot
Two friends gave evidence at the Saville enquiry. One was very junior at the BBC and the other a nurse in Leeds. The BBC was and still is a rumour mill and there were lots of suspicions amongst the junior ranks about Saville but one that never went away was how several promising young people simply vanished from the industry having worked on Saville projects - jumped or pushed no one seemed to know.
In the case of the nurse she reported his request for 'relief' for doing a portering job for her and was told she was nothing special and Jimmy said it to all the young nurses.... As well as getting handsy with them as he pleased.
Risefromthedream · 14/12/2021 19:59
@Jacesmum1977 * The world is going through a massive depopulation program.
What they’ve put into you is dna altering and immune altering, people will get ill and not be able to fight it.*
@Twinstudy conspiracy theory is just as valid as yours! Why no shock and horror at all the vaccinated people getting ill?
Ddot · 14/12/2021 18:46
Ahhh
Itsalmostanaccessory · 14/12/2021 17:36
@Ddot
The Mona Lisa is painted on poplar wood. It ianr canvas. it's solid wood. It wasnt cut when it was stolen. It was simply lifted off the wall.
It has never been cut. The reserve around the edge has been trimmed to fit a frame, but none of the actual painting has been cut. It's always been the size it is.
This has been speculated about a lot. About 40 art experts actually examined it to find an answer and concluded that it was never cut.
Ddot · 14/12/2021 17:03
Mona lisa has been stolen before and cut from frame, it is now much smaller. It needs to be protected so fake one on show. Shame really
JustJustWhy · 14/12/2021 16:59
@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
I suppose they clearly label it as a 'replica - original being maintained' or whatever? If not, that does seem a touch deceitful: if I wanted to see a photo of the Mona Lisa, I could just see it online - no need for me to travel all that way to its actual home, just to see a mock-up.
And that's part of why I don't "get" art. If it looks exactly the same, what's the difference?
youdontnome · 14/12/2021 16:42
So I kind of see something in this:
Governments keep locking down so that airlines and other businesses go bust, leaving the few airlines left to inflate their prices astronomically and therefore denying air travel to lower earners and also working towards green targets similar with restaurants, many will go bankrupt leaving the more expensive ones to cater to the well off whilst us at the bottom go without.
Itsalmostanaccessory · 14/12/2021 15:56
They dont always label it, no.
Mostly, if they are permanently displayed a replica (which museums do for a lot of statues and skeletons etc) then the description will read that it is a replica. But for short term switched due to maintenance or security concerns, they wont always put up a sign. This isnt a secret. Lots of art critics and museum writers etc have written about the use (and sometimes over use) of replicas.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2021 15:49
That's just weird, displaying a replica. Why are these paintings worth tens of millions of pounds anyway, if somebody can create a replica that looks just as nice/indistinguishably different in a museum?!
I suppose they clearly label it as a 'replica - original being maintained' or whatever? If not, that does seem a touch deceitful: if I wanted to see a photo of the Mona Lisa, I could just see it online - no need for me to travel all that way to its actual home, just to see a mock-up.
Itsalmostanaccessory · 14/12/2021 15:38
@dropitlikeitsloth
This isnt exactly a conspiracy theory. Its sort if just fact.
Museums and galleries have replicas of their important artwork made. That's a fact. It is discussed quite a lot. They do it so they can display the replica if the original needs any maintenance done, or if there are security concerns.
Sometimes they dont have replicas and they just put up a sign saying the piece is currently being maintained. But they do use replicas and they do display them without putting up a notice to tell you it is a replica.
Some museums permanently display replicas because the original is just too delicate to put on display. They sometimes tell you it is a replica. They sometimes dont.
julieca · 14/12/2021 15:26
I dont believe that. But most of us wouldn't know the difference anyway.
dropitlikeitsloth · 14/12/2021 12:47
Just heard one… the Mona Lisa and other famous paintings shown in museums are copies, the real ones are held in vaults.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2021 10:43
And even now many people are too ready to believe implausible excuses or give obvious predators the benefit of the doubt. Just read MN.
That is very true.
Even on this thread, we've had people state that they point-blank discount any suggestion of any conspiracy as ridiculous and/or a clear sign that the person asking the question is somehow deficient. ALL conspiracies: the very suggestion that ANYBODY will EVER plot with other people to do bad things.
You're right about powerful people ensuring that things are shut down and, if necessary, those who put their heads above the parapet are ridiculed or destroyed. Going back to the death of Diana, just supposing that the DofE had been wholly responsible for it, does anybody truly believe that somebody would dare/be able to expose him, that person remain safe and normal justice be carried out against the perpetrator?
Even now, they've just discussed on the TV that Prince Andrew has 'asked' (which I imagine carries significantly more weight than if you or I asked) for the evidence to be sealed. How remarkable for an innocent man, outrageously accused of involvement in/connection to such an appalling crime, wouldn't want all of the evidence to be clearly seen and examined, in order to exonerate him completely and rightfully restore his impeccable reputation for all to see.
Ddot · 14/12/2021 10:10
A nurse reported him but was told to shut up
julieca · 14/12/2021 09:46
Whistleblowers always have their careers destroyed and are rarely listened to, even now. Look at the whole thing around Corey Fielding. Apparently, everyone knew about that.
People then knew child abuse was wrong, but teenagers of 14 and 15 would have just been seen as "slags" by many people, they still are in many cases.
Saville worked hard to ensure he was protected. From the Freemasons to the police. He cultivated friends in high places from the Royal Family to the government.
The only way to have tackled that was evidence. You go to someone and say I have heard Saville abuses kids and had a teenager in his room overnight. But you have no proof, when asked Saville denies it and no one will back you up. Nothing would happen.
And even now many people are too ready to believe implausible excuses or give obvious predators the benefit of the doubt. Just read MN.
Its why when people say that everyone knew I think they are only partly right. Yes they will have heard the rumours. But some will have dismissed them as - they are only jealous of his success and saying that because he is not married. Others will have thought he was really gay and it was a smear campaign against a closeted gay man. People frequently deny what is in front of their eyes.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2021 09:43
People question why people didn’t come forward sooner, especially women. To be honest, I don’t think they would have been listened to, even the big names, and it would have been career suicide. There wasn’t the mechanisms in place we have today, plus it was a very male dominated world. It would have taken a brave person to speak out against the big stars of the day.
Interestingly, there was at least one powerful woman who very much would have been listened to - who was evidently so untroubled by the 'rumours' that she and her husband hosted JS for Christmas Day for more than a decade.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2021 09:41
This is out in the public arena: ChildLine founder and former BBC presenter Esther Rantzen had been alerted to Jimmy Savile's abuse of children. Ms Rantzen told the BBC she had heard only rumours, and therefore said nothing at the time because "a rumour is not evidence."
It's true that a rumour is not evidence, but any half-intelligent adult who really cares knows full well that you don't just ignore them out of hand without investigating further. I'll bet she wouldn't have dreamed of using a childminder for her own child about whom there was a (very, very widespread and longstanding) 'rumour' that they were an abuser.
Plenty of evidence comes as a result of following up rumours and suspicions: you don't get many criminals just randomly volunteering the information themselves.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2021 09:34
Ah, thank you, @Rhannion & @MsWaffle
I hadn't heard anything about the other older lady I pondered - although her male namesake (no relation, I gather) was heavily involved in silencing Liz MacKean.
MsWaffle · 14/12/2021 08:10
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