Which conspiracy theories do you believe?

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Which theories, dismissed by many as conspiracy theories, do you regard as the truth?

SPB yes! I was thinking that

'Don't slice the top off my egg. The rest of the egg will never withstand the, err, increased weight

I've read about Kamloops and I'm on the fence on that. Didn't the main accuser die suddenly?

Ifailed
Agreed. I hope no one comes on and says they don’t believe in the Holocaust.

Harry looks like prince Phillip, his uncle was ginger it comes from his mums side and now he’s losing his hair he looks more like Phillip. Poor guy can’t get a break!

EllieMe You do know a conspiracy theory is the title generally given to alternative stories than the ones spoon fed to us by the media right?

I too cannot see how 9/11 can possibly have been a conspiracy, but on the other hand cannot possibly believe the official story about, especially, WTC7 coming down.

But I guess that's it. Normal events are easily understood and processed, so they don't garner conspiracy theories. Stuff that is hard to credit, and yet somehow happened, does.

I think the government are lying about the number of people who died in Grenfell.

I defo think lots of info is hidden from the public & this is what drives conspiracy theories.

For example I don’t believe 9/11 was an inside job but was it a coincidence that the stock market had unusual activity leading up to it. I doubt it. Area 51 probably wasn’t used for aliens but perhaps other testing.

I don’t believe the spy who died in the bag was suicide.

7/7 - The first reports mentioning Old Street and Moorgate only for it later be revealed the Northern Line was the original fourth target has always made me fear they is an element of truth in conspiracy theories.

Moon landings? We didn't go back?

I think you'll find the Americans went back several times - Apollo 11 and 12 successfully landed, 13 was aborted, 14, 15, 16 and 17 all successfully landed , with men, on the moon.

12 men have walked on the moon .

And also the Pentagon plane. Now that is incredibly hard to believe. The camera footage that shows what could indeed very likely be a plane - practically driving straight along the ground like a plane about to take off. So low that it would, at that speed and size, surely have already hit multiple objects...it looked like it had pretty much been landed. Just... unbelievable.

But like I said... that's why we have the ??stories in the first place. Because it's almost impossible to believe.

Expat - yes.

James Hewitt must have had time travelling super sperm. He was posted abroad and didn't meet Diana until Harry was 20 months old. The ginger gene is carried with the Spencers - Diana was ginger until she found the peroxide, both her parents and all her siblings are ginger.

Diana wasn't wearing a seatbelt in a car with a drunk driver and going at high speed. Hardly rocket science that she died. It was also highly convenient to the Royal Family but I would never think it was "arranged".

But I do wonder why there was never more investigation around Jill Dando's murder. I think she'd uncovered something and was taken out. It was too clean a kill for anything less than a hitman.

Chirpy, I have studied engineering, and work in it. But you don't need to have studied it to try and evaluate what you think is more likely. Most conspiracy theories contain the same traits of misrepresentation, vagueness on key issues (whilst going on and on about peripheral things), leaping on the slightest error as massively significant, not offering a credible or evidence based alternative etc.

e.g. I don't have to be a space scientist to conclude that moon landing conspiracies are total and utter crap.

Ifailed Where have I said that I don't think the towers came down? Of course they did and thousands of people were murdered. Just not by the people we are supposed to believe murdered them!

I too cannot see how 9/11 can possibly have been a conspiracy, but on the other hand cannot possibly believe the official story about, especially, WTC7 coming down.

Like most things in life it's probably a combination of everything so there probably is something being hidden and not disclosed yet is it likely that our dark overlords planned it all? Probably not....

though it's interesting people are so keen to believe one way or another - either 'everyone on this thread believing is an idiot' or 'you are an unquestioning slave to the media'.....

I have no real investment believing one way or another though it is interesting reading about them....

I think that Diana was murdered.

I don't think that 9/11 was an inside job, I think if it was then a target would have been picked that wouldn't have caused so much damage to the economy.

poster isthismummy What do you think happened to the commercial aircraft then?

The American Airlines aircraft were silver back then (varnished not painted) which is why they are grey.

I don't believe in most of these but I do think there's a hell of a lot more to come on the sex abuse scandals. I think what we've seen wasn't the floodgates opening, just a trickle.

I agree, what with Jimmy Saville (a childhood hero), Rotherham & now Oxfam it appears rife & I feel very naive.

7/7 - The first reports mentioning Old Street and Moorgate only for it later be revealed the Northern Line was the original fourth target has always made me fear they is an element of truth in conspiracy theories.

I was on a NL tube that day, the thing is there will always be a element of confusion & miscommunication when a big incident happens to a lot of people. In the same way that things could of been misreported during 9/11, the city would have been in complete confusion. Look at Manchester and how it was originally reported as speakers blowing out.

Pittapatter Yes he did die in a fairly suspicious manner.

whatsthecomingoverthehill

Well it's good to hear your opinion from the inside...as I said upthread I have no real investment in believing conspiracy theories re 9/11 ( I believe it was an appalling act so don't want to seem like I am minimising it in that respect) but have listened to both sides of the arguments and found interesting points in both.

The disappearance of Johnny Gosch who is theorised to have turned up at the White House as a corespondent called Jeff Gannon

Chirpy, i don't think it's true but i can see understand the thinking that some people may have known about events and decided not to do anything. Thinking that the towers came down in a controlled explosion is nonsensical. Not all conspiracy theories are equally fantastical.

expatinscotland Most definitely. A very small death toll considering the numbers reported missing.