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Most annoying conspiracy theories
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kevraff
29-12-2016
Some strong contenders - but my nomination would be the original granddaddy of all conspiracy theories - the JFK assassination.

What riles about this one is that it's been around for so long that everyone just seems to accept that it was some sort of conspiracy - whilst all the evidence is pretty conclusive that Lee Harvey Oswald was a deranged individual acting alone (as was Jack Ruby).

I suppose it'll be the same with Diana and 9/11 - eventually the conspiracy theories will have been around for so long that people will just accept them as truth.

Don't reckon the Great Moon Hoax will be believed for much longer though.
MoFoHo
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by Rubrical:
“Definitely flat earth theory. My question is always WHY. What benefit does it serve them, whoever they may be, to keep us in the dark about such an innocuous thing?”

Exactly what I ask. WHO benefits from the lie? And how do 'they' get so many people in on the lie in the first place?
Zeropoint1
29-12-2016
Are there still people who believe that satellites are a hoax and that 'satellite' TV is really beamed from a huge transmitter in Luxembourg?

I remember reading that gem in the early to mid 90's.
Jim_McIntosh
29-12-2016
Definitely the false flag ones. I mean I'm sure in the annals of history there would be a government which made up false reports or doctored historical records and all that sort of stuff to dupe people but I think when alleging this sort of thing (such and such a shooting never happened and they are all actors with bloodpacks) that a person should have damning evidence or keep their theories to themselves.

I got linked to a page once where someone was saying the Dunblane massacre was all stage managed and no-one died (etc etc) and remember thinking how terrible it would be if someone read that who was related to someone killed. Talk about a slap in the face. Some psycho kills your kid and then another psycho creates an online webpage that says you, your neighbours, the authorities, and everyone else tangentially connected are part of a stage-managed production and faking everything. That would have to irritate a lot.
MikeJW
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by Soundbox:
“Questioning is important, and to believe the party line is shallow minded.”

What I see with CTs is people who automatically dismiss "the party line", while uncritically swallowing some alternative fantasy they're seen in a forum post or a YouTube video somewhere. They're not "sceptical" or "questioning", they're just another type of sheep.
kampffenhoff
29-12-2016
One of my cousins was injured in the Boston Bombings and was told by these false flag conspiracy people, on her twitter and Facebook, that she was a liar and was an actor being paid. Evidently all the injured were actors and the famous guy who had his leg blown off was already, according to these people, legless. She had to make everything private to avoid these disgusting people.
miss_astrid
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by stoatie:
“Any anti-vaccination CT is a particularly hated one of mine. That shit's actually dangerous. Welcome back, all the diseases we thought we'd eradicated!!! Well done, "independent thinkers". Congratulations. I hope you're very pleased with yourselves.”

Absolutely. Having tried to converse with people on twitter who think vaccines cause autism, all I end up doing is getting blocked by them because they can't retort/disprove the evidence that it doesn't, and that Andrew Wakefield is a fraud. That one particularly irritates me because it endangers others. I vote we ship all those that don't want vaccinations off to an island somewhere, and see how long it takes for them to die from preventable diseases.
MargMck
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by kampffenhoff:
“One of my cousins was injured in the Boston Bombings and was told by these false flag conspiracy people, on her twitter and Facebook, that she was a liar and was an actor being paid. Evidently all the injured were actors and the famous guy who had his leg blown off was already, according to these people, legless. She had to make everything private to avoid these disgusting people.”

Yes, the brother of a work colleague lost part of a limb in the Boston marathon attack. The nonsense you describe makes me want to slap some sense into the CTers but they are probably beyond redemption.
LauraLS
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by MikeJW:
“What I see with CTs is people who automatically dismiss "the party line", while uncritically swallowing some alternative fantasy they're seen in a forum post or a YouTube video somewhere. They're not "sceptical" or "questioning", they're just another type of sheep.”

I've always thought the same.
LauraLS
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“I was talking to a man who thought Sandyhook was a false flag "because he'd never heard of it before"
I tried using logic on him and asked if he'd heard of a few places I've been to in Brighton, the answer was no so I asked if it meant they didn't exist either. His conspiracy logic couldn't find an answer.

I also love, sorry hate the 9/11 wackadoodles who come up with ever increasingly outrageous ideas about how it was faked. They have a small group of CIA, Mossad, FBI, builders rigging the building with explosives over a weekend. Using controlled demolition techniques that usually take many weeks of preparation and knocking out a hell of a lot of the building.”

I've heard one that Sandy Hook was an experiment for a government mind control programme. So basically the government used mind control to send the murderer into a school a massacre children. Sick.

Originally Posted by MoFoHo:
“Exactly what I ask. WHO benefits from the lie? And how do 'they' get so many people in on the lie in the first place?”

I asked a flat earth person this before- I had no reply.
Rich_L
29-12-2016
That the queen is dead...
Cryolemon
29-12-2016
Dunno about annoying, but there are some truly bizarre ones if you know where to look (GLP, mostly)
Soundbox
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pink_Smurf:
“Not even that "the Queen is a lizard" or any other weird and wonderful similar things about "lizard people ruling the world" or that "Jews are lizards in disguise"?”

I have not looked into those but they do sound far fetched. However commenting on the lizard one, a relative who I know to be perfectly sane one time 'saw' a lizard type person. They described it as a person but a lizard at the same time. No explanation and they were not on medication. It may well just be a hallucination but it was very unsettling they said and they never want to see it again. It took over a decade for them to pluck up courage to speak about it.
coughthecat
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by Soundbox:
“If there is only 1% truth behind them it is important to not dismiss this along with the fiction.

I don't think any of them are silly and I say that as someone who does not follow them. Questioning is important, and to believe the party line is shallow minded. The people who lived around Chernobyl were told nothing was wrong by the authorities and just carried on walking out in summer clothing and the wedding video marred by white flashes of high dose radiation is chilling to watch.”

Have you ever met a conspiracy theorist who questions the conspiracy theory?

Somewhat amusingly, while banging on about how questioning things is important, your average tin-foil-hatter will accuse anyone who questions the conspiracy theory of being gullible, or a government agent. No wonder so many of them are confused!

Similarly, the accusation of 'just believing what you're told' is bandied about with predicatble regularity, but CT-ers conveniently ignore the fact that they're just repeating what they've been told.

All of this seems to be based on the automatic assumption that if you don't buy into whichever conspiracy theory happens to be in vogue at the time (and there's rarely one coherent theory) it must mean that you haven't questioned anything and get all your information directly from the government. I genuinely believe that some of them are simply too stupid to understand that you can question something and yet still come to the conclusion that it's the most likely scenario.

As for my favourites ... the moon landings and Roswell as they're relatively 'harmless' in that nobody was killed.* Well, unless you imagine that hit-squads were running around bumping off witnesses and everyone who knew 'the troof'!

* Yes, I do know about Apollo 1 but I'm talking about Apollo 11.
SULLA
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by spiney2:
“My fave never changes, it's always been ''the fake rapture'' A highly bizarre fundamentalist christian fantasy, where the illuminati use laser beams, to project a giant image of jesus into the sky, a fake "2nd comming'' to fool believers ........”

How would they get Believers into the air to meet him ?
UrGleekIsShowin
29-12-2016
Has to be Sandy Hook. I believed the conspiracy theory when I was about 15 and I'm still ashamed.
Laurel1ne
29-12-2016
My particular favourite is that the Earth is hollow with opening at either Pole and that's where UFO's and (apparently) the Lizard People come from

One of my Team Leaders kind of believed this stuff and would bring books from self-published authors and claim the fact that it was in a book made it real
Inspiration
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by kevraff:
“Some strong contenders - but my nomination would be the original granddaddy of all conspiracy theories - the JFK assassination.

What riles about this one is that it's been around for so long that everyone just seems to accept that it was some sort of conspiracy - whilst all the evidence is pretty conclusive that Lee Harvey Oswald was a deranged individual acting alone (as was Jack Ruby).”

Oh I'm not so sure. JFK for me has always seemed fishy. As was his brothers killing. I don't believe the suggestion everyone was "in on it" including the guy who replaced him and the grassy knoll thing has always seemed unlikely to me. But the suggestion that it was a Cuba CIA/Mafia thing gone bad can be pretty compelling if you read into it.

The thing that I never understood is Oswald was apparently a JFK admirer. Spoke highly of him at social events. Why then go kill him and then deny it all when captured?
Mark39London
29-12-2016
Moon landing theories are the ones that niggle me, but pretty much anything from David Icke and his ilk are contenders for me instantly switching off.
seventhwave
29-12-2016
My grandma believes in a couple of weird food-related ones including that milk causes cancer and meat causes liver disease but that these are deliberately covered up in order to keep selling them and keep farming industries going. Don't know how many people believe in those but it's annoying enough having to listen to it from her ...
SegaGamer
29-12-2016
Moon Landings and Flat Earth. Having a massive interest in the Universe i see comments about these two every single time. You can't read anything about NASA, Space Exploration, The ISS or anything to do with the Universe without some idiot bringing up these two ridiculous conspiracy theories.

I can't stand these people. They refuse to listen to any facts, they reject common sense and if you disagree with their warped point of view, then you are in on the conspiracy yourself.

A lot of people say these people are harmless but they're not. These people have children and those children will grow up under the influence of these people. These parents have the potential to ruin their kids future's by spreading around such nonsense.
tenofspades
29-12-2016
moon landings. But the worst thing is, it starts to niggle me that they might be right. How on earth did man get on the moon in 1969- and come back again.
SaturnV
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by LakieLady:
“My MiL believes this. It's very odd, because in almost* all other respects she is an utterly sensible, rational woman.




*she voted Brexit, which we thought was a bit of an aberration, but now regrets it and hopes for a 2nd referendum.”

The moon landing people usually have no idea whatsoever about science or technology. No wonder they're baffled by the concept.
Zeropoint1
29-12-2016
Originally Posted by Laurel1ne:
“My particular favourite is that the Earth is hollow with opening at either Pole and that's where UFO's and (apparently) the Lizard People come from

One of my Team Leaders kind of believed this stuff and would bring books from self-published authors and claim the fact that it was in a book made it real”

I used to work with one of these and his theories were generally quite entertaining when he wasn't being questioned or if you have the 'correct' answers to his questions. But Heaven help you if you tried critical thinking and questioned the things he said!

Be would fly off on a rant about its all there on the internet but 'they' don't want you to know about it. He'd then find you during your break to show you the 'evidence' on YouTube, which when not available was because "they've removed it, the government doesn't want you to know the real truth"

To say I was happy when I was moved to the opposite shift was an understatement. Perhaps 'they' arranged for me to be moved because I was asking too many questions
Princessxxxx
29-12-2016
The earth is flat.
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