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Most annoying conspiracy theories
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danielleh
30-12-2016
That governments and/or pharmaceuticals are withholding the cure for cancer, HIV etc.
bollywood
30-12-2016
Definitely Sandyhook conspiracy.
Jesus didn't exist close behind.
Cryolemon
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by stoatie:
“Put very simply, it involved rockets and a lot of very hard sums.”

Some of the sums aren't even that hard tbh.
Girth
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by Cryolemon:
“Some of the sums aren't even that hard tbh.”

I agree, it's not exactly rocket science.
Monkey_Moo
30-12-2016
Anyone remember the guy who used a video editing app to make it look like the building next to the WTC was intentionally destroyed, just to show how gullible CT's are and eager to accept evidence when it suit them? Can't find the YouTube video, but it's quite entertaining.

Originally Posted by DaisyBumbleroot:
“Boston marathon bombings - all actors don't you know.”

Forgot about that, the poor sod gets his legs blown off and people call him a fake and a liar. I can just imagine them sat behind their keyboards.
Fizzbin
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by Monkey_Moo:
“Anyone remember the guy who used a video editing app to make it look like the building next to the WTC was intentionally destroyed, just to show how gullible CT's are and eager to accept evidence when it suit them? Can't find the YouTube video, but it's quite entertaining.”

Is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-3UvZjyQzA
nattoyaki
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by Cryolemon:
“Some of the sums aren't even that hard tbh.”

Maths and science are not my forte.

If space is a vacuum then how do rockets propel? What are they thrusting against?

Also, is faster than light possible?

I'd be grateful for answers from science bods
TerraCanis
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by nattoyaki:
“Maths and science are not my forte.

If space is a vacuum then how do rockets propel? What are they thrusting against?”

They don't need to "push against" anything (although you could argue that they're pushing against their own exhaust) Rockets work by "throwing" relatively small amounts of marerial backwards at speed: because the rocket has to "push" this material backwards, the material also pushes the rocket forwards.

Originally Posted by nattoyaki:
“Also, is faster than light possible?

I'd be grateful for answers from science bods ”

Honest answer: nobody really knows. But, all the evidence so far suggests that it isn't. There might be ways round that evidence, but all result in the laws of physics being rather different from how the evidence suggests they are. So, most likely, no.
BastardBeaver
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by danielleh:
“That governments and/or pharmaceuticals are withholding the cure for cancer, HIV etc.”

See this is literally the only CT I can see as plausible. Not nessasairily the cure for cancers or hiv, but they withhold better treatments that dont make them money back for sure.
Tests into the use of cannabis as a treatment for diseases such as cancer for eg.
People KNOW it has healing properties, but they just wont fund the research as it wont reward them finacially.
MC_Satan
30-12-2016
Another vote for the vaccine CT's. Dangerous and stupid.
Trulytrue
30-12-2016
I don't know about "normal vaccines" but Has anyone looked into the HPV vaccine though? Seems to be a lot going on with that one, yet they are now going to be testing it on newborn babies

I would not just dismiss anything out of hand, just because it sounds daft any more.
njp
30-12-2016
And slowly but surely, one by one, the conspiracy theorists start to arrive...
Doctorb
30-12-2016
The chocolate orange one, annoying and probably true.
TerraCanis
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by Inspiration:
“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?”

Originally Posted by nattoyaki:
“JFK I've looked into a lot more since and am convinced, you don't need much to prove it. No expert gunman in the world has ever been able to shoot three bullets in such a short time from that kind of gun (let alone hit a moving target from distance with each one).”

Just bear in mind that when people start firing guns, what they hit isn't necessarily what they were aiming at.
BastardBeaver
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by njp:
“And slowly but surely, one by one, the conspiracy theorists start to arrive...”

Greedy money making pharmaceutical companies is hardly a conspiracy theory.
HenryGarten
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by seventhwave:
“"Cultural Marxism"

"Illuminati" / "Bilderberg" / "New World Order"

Reptilian lizards

The moon landings were faked

Anything related to the idea that an increase in number of people diagnosed with autism, and/or of out transgender people, is because of someone deliberately putting hormones in food or water supplies.”

Ok. I immediately put you in the "not to be believed about anything" As soon as I find someone who does not believe that man has landed on the moon I know that they are a bit dim.
coughthecat
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by HenryGarten:
“Ok. I immediately put you in the "not to be believed about anything" As soon as I find someone who does not believe that man has landed on the moon I know that they are a bit dim.”

Wasn't seventhwave just listing 'the moon landings were faked' as one of the most annoying conspiracy theories as opposed to making a statement to the effect that the moon landings were faked?
Boo Radley75
30-12-2016
Most annoying conspiracy theory for me is the one that immigrants come over to the UK only to take what they can and don't give anything back even though facts prove otherwise.
lemoncurd
30-12-2016
I'd never heard of the Sandy Hook CT until I read this!
Styker
30-12-2016
Moon landings were fake one. I've heard people on phone in radio stations repeat technical terms that they obviously don't know what they mean and just take things at face value that it was all fake.

Obviously I don't know for sure but I think other Governments especially the Russians would have cried foul if they thought the moon landings were fake and there have ben numerous moon missions since the ones in 1969 too right?
silversox
30-12-2016
I haven't spotted anything about the 'apparent suicide' of Dr David Kelly, back in July 2003. There are many thousands of people including a few eminent doctors who believe that he was murdered by the Government of that time. There are also many people who consider this as a conspiracy theory.
Styker
30-12-2016
Originally Posted by silversox:
“I haven't spotted anything about the 'apparent suicide' of Dr David Kelly, back in July 2003. There are many thousands of people including a few eminent doctors who believe that he was murdered by the Government of that time. There are also many people who consider this as a conspiracy theory.”

Its not really an irritating one though is it? Not in terms of it being nonsense. People are more likely to think its true that he was killed I reckon.
HeavySaurus
30-12-2016
How Big Pharma is concealing the cure for cancer/aids/whatever. The amount of people involved in researching new treatments is immense, it would be impossible to keep anything as significant as that under wraps.

And anti-vaxxers need a good shake and a slap. The link between vaccines and autism has been thoroughly debunked, thoroughly, and EVEN IF there was even a hint of truth to it (there isn't) isn't that still better than contracting a horrifying deadly disease... surely a child with social and learning difficulties is better than a dead one.
Dr. Linus
30-12-2016
Flat Earth theory, because it's unspeakably stupid and defies almost every principle of physics that we're aware of.

Not a fan of Moon Landing doubters - mostly because it laughs in the face of an astonishing achievement that many people should be proud of; and also because the conspiracy theory is far more unbelievable in its intricacies than the actual moon landing.

Diana "assassination" is another stupid one - of all the ways to have someone quickly dispatched, the very last method you'd choose on earth is getting a chauffeur drunk in the hope they crash. One in a million chance of what happened falling into place, and that's being generous. Classic case of people struggling to deal with a genuine tragedy and looking for someone to blame.

But most of all - should go without saying really - the Holocaust deniers, who are the lowest people on this Earth as far as I'm concerned.
Supratad
30-12-2016
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.”

Aye that's true. With all the other nonsense like 9/11, moon landing etc, at least the only thing being wasted is the CT'er's own time, but with healthcare myths it's these idiots' poor kids that are at risk.
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