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Have any conspiracy theories ever been proven true?

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Newsenmum · 24/07/2024 22:46

Does anyone know if any past ones have? What have some past ones been? I only know the more recent ones

also quite fancied a CT thread 😳

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miss79guided · 19/09/2025 00:08

mirrorwritin · 24/07/2024 23:12

I think Covid probably came from a lab.

Probably - That is NOT a conspiracy

sashh · 19/09/2025 04:42

Lacdulancelot · 25/07/2024 07:20

Thats the point.
The police being involved was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory for years.
Helped by The Sun and Mrs Thatcher.

However the policeman in charge that day, Duckenfield, had replaced Brian Mole who normally always commanded policing at Hillsborough.
It’s reported, not sure how true, that on learning Duckenfield had been given the match to police that Mole had said words roughly to the effect of
‘ Let’s see how he f###s this up.’
He could never have guessed how much.

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And things are still going on. The report from the Hillsborough Independent Panel was put on line with an archive of all the documents they had, witness statements, police reports (2 or 3 versions of each) medical reports etc etc.

The archive was taken down because Duckenfield was going to be on trial, and it has not gone back up. You can read the report but the 400 000 documents are no longer available.

I'd started to read some of them and they are eye opening. I wasn't sure if I could cope with the accounts from those in the pens so I started to read the accounts of people who lived near the ground. Lots of people opened their doors, made cups of tea, allowed their phone to be used (and they all say they were offered money for the call) and then what floored me was that the day after a lot of fans came back to locals with bags of groceries.

I remember it happening, and I remember the Sunday shopping hours. It wasn't as easy as popping in to Tesco on your way.

How do you go through what will probably be the worst experience of your life and still think about the person who made you a cup of tea?

BTW I have not read the full thread so sorry if someone has already said this. Once a conspiracy theory is discovered to be true it is no longer a theory.

sashh · 19/09/2025 05:26

And reading the thread tells me I already said that last year.

Garlickest · 19/09/2025 20:39

sashh · 19/09/2025 05:26

And reading the thread tells me I already said that last year.

Aww, @sashh 😂

FineFettler · 20/09/2025 10:11

DappledThings · 31/07/2024 08:48

I mean yes, psychologists probably have been studying public reactions to rapidly changing public health policy. It would be weird if they weren't. It's the idea that's there's a significant group of people (scientists now apparently) reading that research and gleefully running their hands working out how they can next use those reactions for some undefined nefarious end that's silly.

Literally nobody I know was scared anyway. We were all fairly blasé about it. Following the sensible concepts of keeping away from others for a while, not doing any of the OTT washing groceries, moaning a bit a masks especially when it got warmer and feeling a bit daft queueing outside Tesco but understanding they were measures that were probably sensible at this unprecedented time.

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I don't think the people struggling to breathe in hospitals were at all blasé about it, and they were definitely scared.

Nousernamesleftatall · 20/09/2025 11:35

FineFettler · 20/09/2025 10:11

I don't think the people struggling to breathe in hospitals were at all blasé about it, and they were definitely scared.

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Anxiety was the number 1 comorbidity with COVID listed in NY in 2020. I remember that stiking me as odd. They were given either Remdesiver or Midazolam both hasten death. If they were put on a vent they were likely to die as their lungs were blown out. No one died from Covid at home. No one dropped dead on the street. You can still see the archived Covid hospital protocols. You can also see peer reviewed studies on both the above drugs which show most die from it. They knew as with every virus the most vulnerable are the elderly and what did they do? They transferred them to nursing homes where they were denied medical treatment and family contact where they died, mostly from secondary bacterial pneumonia while they told us to stay at home to protect granny. Guaranteed if they did the same today there would be a spike in deaths.

DappledThings · 20/09/2025 11:49

FineFettler · 20/09/2025 10:11

I don't think the people struggling to breathe in hospitals were at all blasé about it, and they were definitely scared.

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I don't doubt that at all. I was in no way suggesting that they weren't or shouldn't have been and I'm sure if I knew anyone who had been badly affected I would have been scared too.

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