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Which conspiracy theories do you believe?

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RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 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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Mumtobabyhavoc · 12/11/2026 02:03

HumbleStumble · 11/11/2026 23:16

Humans never set foot on mars.

But, we haven't...

WhereYouLeftIt · 12/11/2026 02:05

MellowSubmarine · 11/11/2026 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.

I have wondered if the body was actually Epstein. His death just seemed a little - convenient. He had the money and amorality and connections to bribe / threaten his way into being declared dead.

WilliamTopazMcGonagallPoorPoetFromDundeeBeItTold · 12/11/2026 02:10

The problem is in who gets to say what is and what isn't a 'conspiracy theory'; and who is or isn't trusted to 'debunk' them.

I always find it incredible how many people readily believe that just about everything that is told us by 'baddie' countries (Russia, Iran, North Korea, China) is genuine conspiracies - and take it as a given; yet they call everybody who ever questions any official narrative from a 'goodie' (haha) country (any North American, Western European or Australasian country) a surefire crazed loon.

We also have the gaslighting whereby people question something that smells really off and are denounced as bonkers idiots; then that thing is eventually proven to be true, and so it becomes 'declassified' and acknowledged as a genuine conspiracy... but all of the other (as yet unproven or indeed mad) 'conspiracy theories' are obviously crazy, right?!

MK Ultra, Operation Paperclip, Blair's 'sexed-up' dossier, the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal... so many 'insane' people believed in these and insisted that they were true... and, oops, so they are after all!

Amongst numerous others, I definitely don't believe that we were/have been told the full true story about the deaths of Robin Cook, David Kelly, Jill Dando, Jean-Charles de Menezes, Jacintha Saldana and Epstein; nor that nobody in authority actually knew exactly what Jimmy Savile was up to, and that he was a lone wolf without any very powerful connections.

Crushed23 · 12/11/2026 02:35

HumbleStumble · 11/11/2026 23:16

Humans never set foot on mars.

This made me smile. 😊

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Zuve · 12/11/2026 06:51

Nope I don't believe in conspiracy theories.

MushMonster · 12/11/2026 06:52

That AI and robotic AIs will be much more detrimental to humankind than benefitial.

Palepinkish · 12/11/2026 06:53

whatnetxtocome · 11/11/2026 19:54

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

Control for what end?

changed9262926 · 12/11/2026 06:54

I don’t believe them. However my guilty pleasure is going down a rabbit hole on TikTok.
my recent algorithm is the mermaids in Area 51. That’s so bonkers it’s brilliant.

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Tollington · 12/11/2026 07:13

Covid came from a lab
Roswell was not a mogul balloon
LHO was not the only JFK shooter

MushMonster · 12/11/2026 07:27

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Still, the big tech guys seem oblivious. So maybe they consider this view as a conspiracy theory?

Cadenza12 · 12/11/2026 07:33

What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact?
About 6 months.....

notimagain · 12/11/2026 07:54

Periperi2025 · 11/11/2026 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!

TBF that's more of an ex/blown conspiracy theory these days.

For context that Guardian piece you linked to was written a handful of years after the accident, these days, thanks to the efforts of one of the pilot's fathers, an engineer/author by the name of Dave Hill who wrote three books on the accident and a lot of other folks such as Bob Burke the picture is a lot clearer.

I think the only person who is still convinced the pilots were solely to blame is one of the ex-very very senior officers who led the investigation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9v1xz1zj4o

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781526204462/Greatest-Disgrace-campaign-clear-Chinook-1526204460/plp

And in the last few days:

https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/26684585.former-raf-test-pilot-chinook-campaigner-dies-aged-86/

David Hill, who has white hair and glasses smiling straight at the camera.

Tributes to RAF Chinook crash expert who helped clear pilots

Former aeronautical engineer David Hill's investigation into the 1994 Mull of Kintyre crash helped pave the way for families' campaign for justice.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9v1xz1zj4o

EverybodyLTB · 12/11/2026 07:57

RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 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.)

I agree with all of these tbf OP. I also think the moon landings were fake.

There’s a big difference between me and you, I hope, than flat-earth, the establishment stitched-up Brand, lizard people conspiracy theorists though!

ImWearingPantaloons · 12/11/2026 08:00

Absolutely none, conspiracy theories are for the hard of thinking.

Saturdaysfairies · 12/11/2026 08:03

I am sure Lucy Letby was set up as a scape goat fir NHS.
Covid was an escape from a Chinese lab.
Epstein was "helped" commit suicide.

SBarnarbasPimlicoIsReallyInBelgravia · 12/11/2026 08:19

ImWearingPantaloons · 12/11/2026 08:00

Absolutely none, conspiracy theories are for the hard of thinking.

I think stating that you believe " absolutely none" conspiracy theories makes YOU a bit " hard of thinking " tbh

m00ngirl · 12/11/2026 08:32

Epstein didn’t kill himself
Epstein and Maxwell’s whole trafficking/compromat operation was enmeshed with intelligence agencies
Dr David Kelly didn’t kill himself
Marilyn Monroe probably didn’t kill herself
There is more to the murder of JFK
There is more to the death of Diana (surprised by all the seatbelt comments… seems obvious but for avoidance of doubt, an ex British intel officer said some years ago car assassination attempts involve breaking seatbelts - she probably wasn’t wearing it because it didn’t work)
Covid came from a Wuhan lab

US intelligence agency NSA held actionable intelligence about the 9/11 attacks before they happened according to senior whistleblower testimony - the only question is whether anyone had assessed it properly or not. I have questions about the collapse of the third building, WTC7.

Not all but a lot of the above is well documented. It’s important to bear in mind how psychological motivations also shape what are accepted as “facts” (as well as of course mad conspiracy theories). Some facts were treated as conspiracy theories, even if patently obvious circumstantially before facts, until overwhelming irrefutable evidence was put in the public domain. The response of majority is often then to minimise the impact of the new reality (see Covid lab origin…)

LizzieW1969 · 12/11/2026 08:50

FindingMeno · 11/11/2026 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...

I do agree with this. It’s just too coincidental that Covid started in Wuhan, not far from there was a lab studying infectious diseases. I believe there was a screw up and the Chinese government covered it up.

I also have no problem believing that Epstein was murdered, there were plenty of powerful men in the US with reason to silence him.

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories in general though.

thisfilmisboring123 · 12/11/2026 08:53

Cadenza12 · 12/11/2026 07:33

What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact?
About 6 months.....

😂😂😂
Any examples to share... ?

Hoppopitamus70 · 12/11/2026 09:06

Definitely feel Covid came from a laboratory.

And I am positive Diana was assassinated. I don't think we ever had a firm reason why she didn't wear her seatbelt, - was this common practice, or had the seatbelt not been working at the time??? Never any conclusion to this was there?

Feel the moon landing's were real.

Think Laika suffered more than we can imagine.

Think Bigfoot is real.

The Windings font which means that when you type '911' it comes up with a plane and two towers was just an incredible coincidence.

Roswell happened, and a lot more that is hidden from us.

I am sure the present Government are aware that we are under serious threat of war but keeping it to themselves for now before spreading panic. These are just my theories.

It pisses me off when people report that Covid didn't exist or not as many people died from it as was reported, and vacs don't work, etc, etc. That's one thing I always pull people up on as it annoys me.

EasternStandard · 12/11/2026 09:11

Some of what you mention is divided isn’t it op? Covid lab and LL in particular.

1dayatatime · 12/11/2026 09:14

On Covid 2012, six miners became seriously ill with a pneumonia-like disease after clearing bat droppings from the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province, three subsequently died. Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology investigated the site and collected bat samples, discovering several previously unknown coronaviruses. The Wuhan laboratory spent years studying these bat viruses.

The lab-leak argument is based on three points that 1) researchers were investigating precisely the family of viruses capable of causing a pandemic, 2) in Wuhan where the first outbreak appeared, and lastly 3) that China has not provided the laboratory records, staff health information and biosafety evidence needed to rule out an accident.

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