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AIBU to wonder what conspiracy theories you think may hold some weight?

499 replies

Soundbyte · 27/08/2020 21:55

Generally speaking I hate conspiracy theories, but is there anything out there that’s passed off as a conspiracy theory that you think holds some weight? I personally have some questions about the assassination of JFK.

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Mimishimi · 29/08/2020 00:07

letsgomaths: OBL existed. He was a CIA asset living 800m from Pakistan's largest military base making agitprop videos.

lovelifehope · 29/08/2020 00:11
  • Russia behind brexit, very sad! A war is coming and I don’t know from what direction?

That isn’t really that likely, you mean a nuclear war?

boltzmannbrains · 29/08/2020 00:12

And her mate said she was on her period.. listen to yourself.. that’s ridiculous grin - genuinely that has made me lol!

What a weird thing to find funny.

JanMeyer · 29/08/2020 00:18

Covid didn’t come from eating bats (which the Chinese and others have been doing for thousands of years btw..) it cane from the medical lab in Wuhan.

You should read a book called The Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs. The book explains pretty much all you could want to know about viruses, one of the things it talks about is bats being a likely reservoir for SARS and other types of coronaviruses.
Here's a quote from the book warning about another possible SARS outbreak: "Two recent studies support that conclusion. Bats sampled in China and Taiwan were found to be carrying a Coronavirus that was genetically almost identical to the SARS virus and that any day could be transmitted to another animal species that has substantial human contact. What happened in Guangdong Province in 2002 and 2003 could happen all over again if one of these bat viruses infects humans, most likely via another infected animal. We can't for a moment believe that the SARS obituary has been written."

With the SARS outbreak the virus came from bats, but that's not how most humans were infected. They were infected by badgers and civets, mostly in wet markets. It stands to reason that people were infected by Covid-19 in a similar way.

Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? Because i find it hilarious that the only argument you offer here is the fact that chinese people have been eating bats for a long time. Funnily enough you are kind of right, people might not have been infected from eating bats, they get infected from eating the animals that were infected by the bats.

OhTheRoses · 29/08/2020 00:28

What about when the MNet thread about conspiracy theorists got hacked revealing the true identities of the contributors and a number with plausible theories disappeared mysteriously............

Butterer · 29/08/2020 00:29

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SinisterBumFacedCat · 29/08/2020 00:56

The Diana thing annoys me. She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, driver was pissed and they were being chased by paparazzi who continued taking pictures after the crash as she lay mortally wounded. However this isn’t quite shitty enough behaviour to warrant any blame on the paps, despite the editor of one tabloid saying every Editor had blood on their hands immediately after her death was announced, they magically turned it round to being the RFs fault and stoked up so much moral outrage about a fucking flag being flown at half mast. Crisis averted, Murdoch still runs the country.

Adwodeabo · 29/08/2020 00:58

There have been rumours for years that Tom Cruise is gay. Supposedly he hired his wives as a cover up. Relatively unknown starlet gets £££ in return for playing the part of his wife. Allegedly after he divorced Nicole Kidman he auditioned several actresses to be his next wife, before finally settling on Katie Holmes. She’s rumoured to have already been pregnant to her ex Chris Klein when Tom came along and offered to marry her. The timeline of her giving birth would have given the game away, so she allegedly faked the last few weeks of her pregnancy when in fact she had already given birth. Then they avoided letting the baby be photographed for months because it would be obvious she wasn’t a newborn. Katie got a cash payout for every year of their marriage and Tom doesn’t have contact with Suri because she isn’t his child.

PhilSwagielka · 29/08/2020 01:04

@SoManyActivities

boltzmannbrains I read all that, I actually want to know what the pm would have said. I’m not saying I’d believe it but I kind of live for this crap lol

This crap? WTF? You do realise that Holly and Jessica were real children, and the last thing their parents would ever need, even all these years later, is people online hinting at bullshit about how their 'negative behaviour' somehow led to their murder?

What is wrong with people? I know 'true crime' has become a form of entertainment these days (as it always was in a way I guess) but these are real people we are talking about here.

I feel sorry for people who live in Soham. They got a lot of ghouls visiting the village after the cause got into the press, not sure if they still do.
Fungster · 29/08/2020 01:35

@Packingsoapandwater

Why would finding the passports of people who were very definitely on board those flights be all that unfathomable

It's far more understandable than even that scenario.

The passport was found by a businessman who saw it on the street as he was evacuating the area before the towers fell. He gave it to a nearby NYPD officer who was helping with the evacuation. Said officer handed it in to his station, and no-one realised what it meant until quite a while afterwards.

If you read the first responder reports for 9/11, they give you a very good idea of what the situation was like on the ground after the planes hit but before the towers fell. The impacts blasted objects from the planes and offices quite a long way. A lot of luggage ended up all in one street, for example.

But do beware. You need a strong stomach for some of those reports; there's things in them that have never really been publicised.

Where did you find those? Do you have a link you could share, please?
Alonetime · 29/08/2020 01:53

David Kelly also definitely murdered, very sad!

Donald, is that you?

sashh · 29/08/2020 03:38

David Kelly had coproxamol in his body.

This is interesting for two reasons:

  1. it had been withdrawn from general prescribing a couple of years earlier so who ever prescribed it would have had to order it as a special.

  2. The reason for withdrawal was its side effects, it cause negative thoughts / nightmares and on occasion suicidal thoughts.

My personal experience of it was having a nightmare about a monster and waking up, but the monster was still in the room.

Link to a report about the cost of coprox that includes dates of withdrawal. It includes the quote: ‘This is a toxic preparation and most practices stopped all prescribing then, any GP continuing to prescribe does so at great personal risk and would have significant difficulty explaining their actions to a coroner should that be required.’

www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/clinical-specialties/prescribing/gps-told-by-ccgs-to-find-alternatives-for-co-proxamol-prescriptions/20031058.article

SmallYappyTypeDog · 29/08/2020 05:38

@Adwodeabo whilst I believe this theory could have some truth to it Suri is definitely his child. She is the spitting image of him.

MellySandra · 29/08/2020 07:46

@Butterer Thank you!

LuluBellaBlue · 29/08/2020 08:07

I believe everything in this documentary:
9/11
Epstein
The royal family
Pizzagate

LuluBellaBlue · 29/08/2020 08:08

Forgot to post link 🙄

Tori2005 · 29/08/2020 08:46

More one I am keeping my eye on. Ghislaine Maxwell has been remanded for a significant amount of time in a bid that Donald Trump will lose the next election and she will have information to bring him down which will be easier once he is out of office. I think, Ghislaine Maxwell will throw a lot of people under the bus in 2021.....

Rainbowbagel · 29/08/2020 09:48

@Tori2005 agreed!!

Let’s hope she isn't murdered first..

x2boys · 29/08/2020 10:36

I don't believe Diana was murdered ,hade,nt she also been in a relationship with a Muslim heart surgeon previously ,also I don't believe she was pregnant ,Diana craved attention from the press and i don't think she would have allowed herself to get pregnant in such a new relationship , considering the scandal it would have caused and the media would have been very negative about it .

SerenDippitty · 29/08/2020 10:51

If Diana was pregnant it would have been of no relevance to the succession or the RF. The idea that the RF would have wanted her dead on this account is as batshit as it comes.

Pobblebonk · 29/08/2020 10:56

And her mate said she was on her period.. listen to yourself.. that’s ridiculous

Why? I'm genuinely baffled as to what is ridiculous, @Rainbowbagel? Don't you think Diana had periods? Or that she wouldn't tell her friend? Or that her friend wouldn't mention it when all sorts of silly rumours about pregnancy were floating around?

paintedsmile77 · 29/08/2020 10:57

@Adwodeabo whilst I believe this theory could have some truth to it Suri is definitely his child. She is the spitting image of him.

I always thought she was the double of her mum. Remarkably so.

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 29/08/2020 11:01

covid, biological warfare,

eppstein
even diana is plausible

Hingeandbracket · 29/08/2020 11:02

The Diana conspiracists on this thread are delusional.

Hingeandbracket · 29/08/2020 11:06

@Tori2005

More one I am keeping my eye on. Ghislaine Maxwell has been remanded for a significant amount of time in a bid that Donald Trump will lose the next election and she will have information to bring him down which will be easier once he is out of office. I think, Ghislaine Maxwell will throw a lot of people under the bus in 2021.....
What a load of twaddle (about the timing) - no doubt Maxwell has some dirt but she's going to jail for a long time anyway so why would she incriminate the others? Shs is obviously a cunt who only cares about her so she will only do stuff that's in her interests.