People generally do not trust conspiracy theories because they are mostly random and inaccurate. Many times, though, theorists had identified the correct answer long before it was proven to be correct. Over the last six months, lawmakers and Big Tech have joined forces to eliminate all conspiracy theories and theorists off the internet. QAnon, Alex Jones, David Icke, many anti-vaxxers, and Donald Trump, among dozens of other public ps, have all been banned or suspended from Twitter and YouTube, while Facebook and Instagram have removed over 12 million pieces of content they believe to be spreading disinformation and promoting false, discredited, and dangerous conspiracy theories.
The tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist who believes things like "the government is eavesdropping on us," "the military is spraying things in the skies," and "the CIA ships in the drugs" is a familiar cliché. Any important international event will almost definitely be explained by at least one conspiracy theory. The Apollo moon landings were a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job, climate change is a hoax, JFK was assassinated by the CIA, the earth is flat, the pharmaceutical industry is suppressing a cancer cure, vaccines cause autism, Princess Diana was murdered by the royal family, Barak Obama was born in Kenya and is secretly a Muslim, and the world is ruled by lizards, to name a few. Many of these "theories" – which should properly be called "conspiracy hypotheses" because they are used in the colloquial sense rather than the precise scientific definition – are about science or medicine.
But it turns out that such things aren't so crazy after all. Surprisingly, conspiracy theories can sometimes be emotionally soothing. They offer plausible explanations for situations that appear unexplained, random, or capricious, and they frequently make your political opponents look terrible. They can also make believers feel superior since they – and sometimes only them – have seen through the lies and cover-ups to uncover the "truth."
Here are 19 examples of what used to be dismissed as outlandish conspiracy theories but are now regarded as historical facts. They say the truth is stranger than fiction. That's no lie: All of these so-called "crazy conspiracy theories" turned out to be absolutely legit.
#13 “MKUltra like someone above said, the FBI seeking out mentally disturbed people to help them plan attacks so they can arrest them right before they carry it out, COINTELPRO, Operation Northwoods and literally everything the CIA dabbles in
I also believe most people don't realize the government has worked directly with media companies since at least WW2 in an effort to sway public opinion in their favor. Add on the theater of left/right politics, 24hr talk shows posing as news and a executive order allowing the US people to openly be bombarded with harmful propaganda.
The tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist who believes things like "the government is eavesdropping on us," "the military is spraying things in the skies," and "the CIA ships in the drugs" is a familiar cliché. Any important international event will almost definitely be explained by at least one conspiracy theory. The Apollo moon landings were a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job, climate change is a hoax, JFK was assassinated by the CIA, the earth is flat, the pharmaceutical industry is suppressing a cancer cure, vaccines cause autism, Princess Diana was murdered by the royal family, Barak Obama was born in Kenya and is secretly a Muslim, and the world is ruled by lizards, to name a few. Many of these "theories" – which should properly be called "conspiracy hypotheses" because they are used in the colloquial sense rather than the precise scientific definition – are about science or medicine.
But it turns out that such things aren't so crazy after all. Surprisingly, conspiracy theories can sometimes be emotionally soothing. They offer plausible explanations for situations that appear unexplained, random, or capricious, and they frequently make your political opponents look terrible. They can also make believers feel superior since they – and sometimes only them – have seen through the lies and cover-ups to uncover the "truth."
Here are 19 examples of what used to be dismissed as outlandish conspiracy theories but are now regarded as historical facts. They say the truth is stranger than fiction. That's no lie: All of these so-called "crazy conspiracy theories" turned out to be absolutely legit.
#1 “Marylin Monroe was being spied on by...everyone. Seriously. When another owner of her former residence decided to renovate, the number of wires and bugging they found was astounding.”
#2 “Project Stargate. Turns out men really did stare at goats.”
#3 “There were, in fact, incidents where "undesirables" (certain races, disabled people, etc) were sterilized without their consent, going back as far as the 1800s. And there are still allegations of this happening, today.”
#4 “PRISM :- Turns out the government was spying on you.”
#5 “The FBI did want Martin Luther King Jr dead and even went as far as sending him letters trying to bully him into dying by suicide. They may not have put a gun in James Earl Ray's hands, but they were happy with the outcome.”
#6 “Ms. Spears posted weird videos on instagram, seemingly normal at first glance but extremely creepy and weird the more you watch them. Some people said she was calling for help.”
#7 “Pretty much everything in the Panama Papers was part of one conspiracy theory or another and they were all proved pretty much right.”
#8 “Operation Mockingbird. The "news" is the same everywhere even the local news.”
#9 “Not officially confirmed as far as I know, but I think Gary Webb was likely correct about the CIA flooding black neighborhoods with crack in the 1980s to fund thier ops in Nicaragua. This was covered in his book series "Dark Alliance". He was later found with two gunshots to his head and his death was ruled a suicide.”
#10 “The 1960 weed-smoking hippies complaining about the rising police state and the federal surveillance programs? We owe them a whopper of an apology.”
#11 “Remember: it isn't a left vs right issue. It is a top vs bottom issue.Edit: What I mean is it is those in power (top) vs those not in power (bottom). It is completely off balance with the majority of us being on the bottom and subject to those up top
"Rules for three, but not for me."Divided we fall. Whatever division we choose to quarrel about doesn't help the top vs bottom problem.”
#12 “Our phones listening to everything.”
#13 “MKUltra like someone above said, the FBI seeking out mentally disturbed people to help them plan attacks so they can arrest them right before they carry it out, COINTELPRO, Operation Northwoods and literally everything the CIA dabbles in
I also believe most people don't realize the government has worked directly with media companies since at least WW2 in an effort to sway public opinion in their favor. Add on the theater of left/right politics, 24hr talk shows posing as news and a executive order allowing the US people to openly be bombarded with harmful propaganda.#14 “There are cameras in some smart televisions.”
#15 “There were no WMDs. The US government used that lie as an excuse to invade Iraq in the early 2000s.”
#16 “That Tor the program that allows access to the Deep Web was owned by the CIA.”
#17 “Elites and other powerful people being pedos. Just look at Epstein and everyone he was involved with.”
#18 “Von Braun’s nazi membership was not well known to the American public until the 90’s and if you tell someone that Nazis helped get us to the moon they’re going to think you forgot your tin foil hat at the house. There are plenty of “conspiracy theories” that later become known fact.”
#19 “There was a post in another AskReddit thread about NDAs from a guy who worked at GSachs. His big secret was that there were supposedly a ton of anonymous, unregulated/illegal trading accounts within their system doing a shit ton of trading volume that all employees were told to ignore and not ask about"
Apparently you have to go through a lot of certifications and identity stuff to open a fund of that type, yet these had none of that and were clearly black box slush funds of some kind, maybe worse. There's absolutely some crazy bullshit going on there.”