Have any conspiracy theories ever been proven true?

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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 😳

Theres the one about Biden having dementia for some time and his wife running the country and people surrounding them are complicit in the cover up.

Then there is Hunter Biden receiving $2 million from the Ukraine government.

I don't know any more than you do about where Covid originated - but I do think 'lab leak' theorists have not fully understood zoonotic disease transfer. The majority of viruses that make humans ill have evolved from animal diseases, particularly bats and aquatic birds because they have natural immunity to the types of virus that can really play havoc with humans. Teams of researchers spend their lives collecting duck & goose poo, to analyse it for pathogens that can adapt to mammals. Most viral pandemics start in China because it's so bloody big, with so many people and animals.

Big Pharma conspiracies are mostly untrue, but there are good reasons to be wary - Thalidomide and OxyContin were spectacular examples of drug companies knowingly putting profit before public health.

Pollution conspiracies. All true, all disgusting.

There are tons of financial cover-ups and blame-shifting, many of them having pretty grim effects on all of our lives. The Panama Papers revealed loads of them, and the work is still ongoing.

JFK? Dunno. Could be either.

Influential paedophiles. There are so many.

Influential paedophiles. There are so many. @Garlickest can you hint who you are referring to if you can’t directly say?

Sadly, no. Years ago there was a series of threads that were pulled after a legal threat. I reported some to the relevant whistleblowing channels. But I'm old now, and the perpetrators I knew of personally must be dead. Several of 'my' stories were eventually exposed and one or two people went to prison. Nowhere near all of them, though, and that stuff gets more prevalent with each passing year. There really is one on (nearly) every corner 😢

Somebody mentioned sugar upthread. Thought you might enjoy this 😄
Circa 1960

The Royal Family are lizards.

We know at least one of them is as they have slithered away under a rock somewhere out of sight.

😂 @TwoLeftSocksWithHoles 🦎🤣

I've just glimpsed some batshit conspiracy royal theories on a trending MN thread that made yours sound intelligent and plausible 😁

The elm guest house stuff. Every time I mention it though some fan of one of their high profile suspected guests reports me. But Google elm guest house, if you're not triggered by child sexual abuse cases, there is so much out there on that. Some of it is true, some fabricated which is pointless because it was disgusting enough without the extra tales on top.
But I'm saying no more before the poster who refuses to accept her idol is possibly a paedophile kicks off at me again. 😬

The death of David Kelly conspiracy theory has legs

Nestle deliberately marketed formula as healthier than breastmilk to women in developing countries to drive up sales when breastfeeding was becoming more mainstream in the west. This was particularly loathsome because many women did not have access to clean drinking water leading to increased illness and deaths in babies that was utterly preventable but for Nestles profit margin.

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestl%C3%A9_Infant_Formula_Scandal#:~:text=In%201974%2C%20a%20report%20entitled,in%201977%2C%20which%20continues%20today.

Also the CIA used a public hepatitis campaign in Pakistan to secretly collect DNA to find Osama Bin Laden, massively eroding trust in public health amongst a population significantly impacted by preventative disease. And it didn't even contribute to finding him anyway.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/

Yep.

Any excuse to post this again.

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I came to say MKUltra but I see that has been covered! Really scary and fascinating.

One I think is true - I think several world governments, including the US, have at a minimum convincing evidence of extra terrestrial life. I don't think they're secretly keeping aliens prisoner in Area 51. But I've heard enough convincing testimonies that the evidence exists. Plus, what is the actual probabilty that we are actually alone in the universe? It must be close to 0.

I don't know if it's true but I read the lab was right next to the market

It's likely that there is other life in the universe but highly unlikely that it is close enough for us to know about it.

I think some of these examples were rumours rather than conspiracy theories

I said after the second month that this many people aren't getting sick and/or dying because someone in China ate a damn bat.

I'm still wondering if it was purposely accidentally released.

Too early to be a real conspiracy theory but the Trump assassination attempt?

My cat wouldn’t have missed from that position!!

He didn’t miss, Trump moved his head. His aim was perfect, but you can’t do anything about your intended victim moving his head after the shot was fired

But that wasn't true.

I fully believe this. I had my covid jag then found out I was pregnant. Long story short I lost my baby at 24wks due to unfixable heart problems. Neither dp or I's family have any heart problems in it

What's an explanation of the blocks?