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Which conspiracy theories do you believe?

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RoseWylie · Yesterday 19:17

Me-

Covid came from a Chinese lab.
Epstein's death was engineered by a third party, whether by murder or by compromising the suicide watch.
Lucy Letby's conviction isn't sound and was affected by institutional motivation to find a cause for babies dying other than negligence and squalor across the department. (FAOD I have no idea whether she is innocent or guilty.)

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Someonewitha · Yesterday 19:17

Not one tbh.

MrsPapillon · Yesterday 19:21

I think most conspiracy theories start with a tiny grain of truth, but become more and more embellished until they’re crazy.

I don’t particularly believe any, but if it was proven that for example, Diana was bumped off by the establishment, i wouldn’t be shocked.

Eileen101 · Yesterday 19:22

Not one, but i find them fascinating and enjoy reading into them.

SBarnarbasPimlicoIsReallyInBelgravia · Yesterday 19:25

Tbh I think there's a difference between , say , thinking that the world is run by alien reptiles and the earth is flat, and say, questioning the official narrative of the assassination of JFK. Purely as examples.

I suppose we'd have to define what is meant by " conspiracy theory " exactly.

My personal favourite is that Sir Paul Mccartney is really Tara Browne.

MellowSubmarine · Yesterday 19:26

It’s not so much that I believe it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Epstein’s death wasn’t exactly as officially reported.

Lifenov86 · Yesterday 19:29

SBarnarbasPimlicoIsReallyInBelgravia · Yesterday 19:25

Tbh I think there's a difference between , say , thinking that the world is run by alien reptiles and the earth is flat, and say, questioning the official narrative of the assassination of JFK. Purely as examples.

I suppose we'd have to define what is meant by " conspiracy theory " exactly.

My personal favourite is that Sir Paul Mccartney is really Tara Browne.

This I don’t believe the queen was a secret reptile but I also don’t believe Epstein killed himself

RoseWylie · Yesterday 19:30

I suppose we'd have to define what is meant by " conspiracy theory " exactly.

Well yes, I suppose mine are more examples of questioning the official narrative than conspiracy theories proper.

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Someonewitha · Yesterday 19:31

RoseWylie · Yesterday 19:30

I suppose we'd have to define what is meant by " conspiracy theory " exactly.

Well yes, I suppose mine are more examples of questioning the official narrative than conspiracy theories proper.

No your examples are definitely conspiracy theories

Periperi2025 · Yesterday 19:39

Believing that the UK justice system is falliable and that miscarriages of justices happen - which we know is a fact, is not a conspiracy theory.

RoseWylie · Yesterday 19:39

Someonewitha · Yesterday 19:31

No your examples are definitely conspiracy theories

The first one is the official position of the FBI 😂

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Someonewitha · Yesterday 19:40

RoseWylie · Yesterday 19:39

The first one is the official position of the FBI 😂

Source?

ah just read… 3 years ago the director said that.

Comedycook · Yesterday 19:40

I believe princess Diana was murdered.

Wonderknicks · Yesterday 19:41

I think there is reasonable evidence that COVID came from a Chinese lab. None of the rest, I'm afraid (except maybe Epstein, but I don't think that's really a conspiracy theory).

Periperi2025 · Yesterday 19:46

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.comment

I have always had my suspicions around the chinook crash. 3 of my late dads colleagues/ friends were killed (he was part of the same project), I remember him coming home at diner time that night, simulatanously broken and angry as they all knew on day one that it was at best gross incompetence and a cover up of the known faults on the helicopter. Another colleague on his project died not long after (crashed his motorbike moving between meetings at different military bases) the project then got shut down.
It's either a conspiracy or a whole other level of stupidity from the british government/military!

Dark rumours surround Chinook crash

Conspiracy theories abound about the crash which killed 25 top security personnel says Observer Northern Ireland correspondent John O'Farrell Northern Ireland: special report

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.comment

Dontlletmedownbruce · Yesterday 19:50

I 100% believe Epstein didn't kill himself.

I wonder about Marilyn Monroe too

2longinthetooth · Yesterday 19:50

I dont really believe in conspiracy stories but I feel they exist because things are constantly withheld from us or dumbed down. Look at recent events, there is massive news about brand and walliams but hardly anything about the extremist group who paid uk recruits to attack RAF Fairford. Sorry but that is a bigger story. That was a small mention on the news when it should have been headline.

FindingMeno · Yesterday 19:53

Totally think covid was a lab escape.
The whole Epsteins island thing sounded like it was a conspiracy theory until we all knew different...

whatnetxtocome · Yesterday 19:54

The first moon lading was fake.
And covid was just a way for the goverment to use as a form of control,

Blueeyedmale · Yesterday 19:58

I don't think Epstein's death is a conspiracy theory while he got what was coming to him,there is a lot of sick people out there who also committed those vile offences against those poor girls and are unlikely to ever see justice.

It's so heartbreaking we see the rich and famous covering each others back while those women suffer a lifetime of emotional pain.

Sadly this isn't just exclusive to the rich or famous many men will turn a blind eye to the suffering of women and girls.

It the VAWG strategy is going to work we need to challenge the I'm alright jack culture.

HowDoYouSolveAProblemLikeMyRear · Yesterday 19:59

Yep, I have no idea whether Lucy Letby is guilty or not, but the Private Eye investigation gives me significant doubt as to whether the conviction is safe. When that magazine gets a bee in its bonnet about something, (post office scandal, RICS in schools) they're usually proved right even when it takes years.

I tend to think the simplest answer is often correct - Princess Diana wouldn't have died if she was wearing a seat belt. Of course it wasn't the British Establishment murdering her!

I also don't believe that hundreds of people can keep a secret for decades, including on their deathbed. So no, the moon landings weren't faked.

Periperi2025 · Yesterday 19:59

Foot and mouth was a proven lab leak, and the Covid zoonotic hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis currently considered the most likely route of transmission it is not a proven fact, so considering other hypotheses is scientific method not conspiracy theory.

elijahm · Yesterday 20:00

I’d agree that there’s a big difference between “there is a hidden world behind Antarctica that the government don’t want us to know” and “perhaps the pedo who couldn’t be trusted to keep his mouth shut didn’t actually kill himself”

I’d say the only ones I’ve ever generally questioned as famous suicides. Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe etc etc. especially those that were some time ago, it was so much easier to bodge forensics back then

AgMaggy · Yesterday 20:02

Megalodon still exists.

Marycontrarygarden · Yesterday 20:05

whatnetxtocome · Yesterday 19:54

The first moon lading was fake.
And covid was just a way for the goverment to use as a form of control,

Lol ..controlling what and why?

TooBigForMyBoots · Yesterday 20:06

I don't believe Dr David Kelly's death was suicide.

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