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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?

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singleandlooking · 07/12/2021 07:18

That there has been a cure for cancer for years but the governments don’t release it so the pharmaceutical companies can carry on making millions from the sale of chemo etc

AnkleDeep · 07/12/2021 07:22

The level of stupidity of those who believe conspiracy nonsense is frightening. These people have the vote.

The idiocy that's cropped up around Covid shows how poor science teaching must be.

notimagain · 07/12/2021 07:25

@Smorgasborb

I'm not into woo or conspiracies...Occams razor etc but the Denver Airport one is fascinating. Just too many little things that add up into a big WTF?!
I flew into/out of the Denver International airport a few times over the years.

If you spoke to some who worked there you’d hear plenty of theories about airport and local government money and politics that I suspect were far more credible than the more popular stuff about aliens and secret societies…

Roundlampshade · 07/12/2021 07:26

Crop circles. How are they so perfect? If I attempted to do that it would look shit.

TheLovelinessOfBaublyDemons · 07/12/2021 07:28

When I read this post I wondered what Diana had done to anger the Department of Education...

Me too and I've only just got it.... Xmas BlushXmas Grin

Doris86 · 07/12/2021 07:29

@Viviennemary

Moon landings didn't happen. They didn't. Footage totally faked.
There is a tv documentary called ‘The truth behind the moon landings’ that shows lots of ‘proof’ the moon landings were faked.

Then there’s another documentary that totally debunks this ‘proof’ and shows this conspiracy to be a load of nonsense.

One of the bits of ‘proof’ they show is that the American flag is lit up when the sun light would have been behind it not shining on to it. ‘Proof’ of studio lights being used in a fake set according to the first documentary. The second documentary simply explains that flags are thin and the light is shining through it from the back.

wheresmyhairytoe · 07/12/2021 07:33

That JK Rowling discovered the magical world and was put under the Imperius curse to write the Harry Potter series 😊

God I'd love it if that were true 😊

wintersdreams · 07/12/2021 07:43

I know someone who is adamant the moon isn’t real- it’s just a protection in the sky. They also believe that Prince Charles is a vampire Hmm

thedancingbear · 07/12/2021 07:47

@MrsFoxyplease

We are all living in some kind of computer game being controlled by a higher being.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. There are sane contemporary philosophers who think we probably live in a computer simulation.

I can talk you through it again if you’re interested. The arguments are alarmingly sensible.

thedancingbear · 07/12/2021 07:51

@singleandlooking

That there has been a cure for cancer for years but the governments don’t release it so the pharmaceutical companies can carry on making millions from the sale of chemo etc
There's conceivably something in this, though the way you've expressed it misses the nuance. Drug companies make more money from treatments than cures, for obvious reasons, and therefore, being for-profit businesses, invest more R&D in the former than the latter.

It's barely a conscious choice by them - it's just how big corporates function. It's both mundane and completely fucked-up at the same time.

notimagain · 07/12/2021 07:53

@Doris86

“There is a tv documentary called ‘The truth behind the moon landings’ that shows lots of ‘proof’ the moon landings were faked.

Then there’s another documentary that totally debunks this ‘proof’ and shows this conspiracy to be a load of nonsense.”

FWIW in the days when I could be bothered to engage with some of the supposed “free thinkers” with regard to the Moon Landings I almost always came away staggered at the level of laziness on display.

For example you’d hear all sorts of cobblers talked about thrust and rocket blast that could rationalized with an O and A level understanding of Physics but you were usually met with:

“I don’t need to know that”.

The quality of photos or films, exposure, etc that came back can easily be understood by anybody who had used emulsion based films …

”I don’t need to look to understand that”

There’s also the issue of 100,000 plus plus people who either worked on Apollo or are still working with the artifacts (samples, laser reflectors):

“they are all lying”.

Reason we didn’t go back to the Moon after 1972 is politics, national priorities, money and to some extent an increase in risk aversion.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 07/12/2021 08:00

All conspiracy theories are concocted by Governments around the world so that people will dismiss them and then overlook what is really going on...that's why new one are being manufactured all the time.

I've just heard that Boris Johnson has stepped down as PM and has joined the police. This is clearly true, and there are lots of recent photos to substantiate it, and Cressida Dick will replace him as the PM as we always seem to have a dick heading up the Government.

Iwantacampervan · 07/12/2021 08:01

We are all living in some kind of computer game being controlled by a higher being.
No, we're an experiment run by the white mice.

CircusMistress · 07/12/2021 08:11

I'm going to have to read up on many of these.

Luminousnose · 07/12/2021 08:13

If Finland isn’t real, what does that make my Finnish friend? Is she a robot? Saw her a couple of days ago and she seemed real (and Finnish!).

Sweetmayday · 07/12/2021 08:15

The most recent one I heard was that JFK jr was going to appear in Dallas to support Trump and get him reinstated as President. Qanon supporters have met up at a few different dates but still no JFK jr🤷

SilverPeacock · 07/12/2021 08:16

@Luminousnose

If Finland isn’t real, what does that make my Finnish friend? Is she a robot? Saw her a couple of days ago and she seemed real (and Finnish!).
She's just a really good actor and actually from Slough.
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 07/12/2021 08:18

@Luminousnose

If Finland isn’t real, what does that make my Finnish friend? Is she a robot? Saw her a couple of days ago and she seemed real (and Finnish!).
She must be Mrs Christmas,

Or an elf, does she have pointy ears? (that's the give-away)

diddl · 07/12/2021 08:20

@Elliania

It wasn't the Titanic that sank, it was her already damaged sister ship who was sunk for the insurance money. According to this theory all the passengers were meant to be picked up but stuff went wrong.
Like not having enough lifeboats??
Redcrayons · 07/12/2021 08:22

@Luminousnose Duh, she’s an actor, planted by the deep state/new world order/bill gates to make you think it’s real. Do your research.

Tbf, I think the Finland one has always been a joke.

servering · 07/12/2021 08:23

I work with someone who doesn't believe dinosaurs ever existed.

I'm sure there was a thread on here with someone complaining they were teaching this schools? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but when I think of memorable threads it's the dinosaur hoax, the evil rapist dolphin rant, and the woman who was dog-sitting and got haunted in the woods.

I am off to try and find them now Grin

AliceA2021 · 07/12/2021 08:27

9/11 was an inside job. There were no terrorists and the planes were purposely launched into the buildings and then the building destroyed so the US could start a war.

That is batshit crazy

KaptainKaveman · 07/12/2021 08:28

What we have to realise about folk who claim to believe this stuff is that the really really want to. They just want to believe it. It doesn't matter how much evidence is put before them - they will merely claim that evidence is 'invented'. Or when their lies are laid bare, they will claim an attack of psychosis made them do it. That is Alex Jones' defence for inventing the Sandy Hook lies. 'My psychosis made me do it'. These days he is to found begging his Infowars viewers for money so he can afford to defend himself in court (whilst simultaneously relaying clips of himself ingesting Ivermectin 'live' on air because C19 is, of course, a Lie being peddled by the Deep State). And a whole load of people choose to believe it. Go figure.

Hen2018 · 07/12/2021 08:31

@Soggymarshmellows

I also love the 'missing centuries'. Something to do with a few hundred years being added to history in medieval times by Catholic Church. So no actual 'dark ages'. Explains so much. Probably boll*x though.
It wasn’t the Dark Ages world wide. It’s a UK obsessed way of looking at things.
Redcrayons · 07/12/2021 08:31

Another racist and misogynistic one. It's also linked to the weird rumour that their marriage is an elaborate bearding arrangement (particularly to make George more palatable for a future political career in the US

Bearding as an arrangement is not that far fetched though.

Except that Amal is incredibly accomplished and successful in her own right and he’s probably more of a hindrance to her. If anything she married down 😂