I don’t really know what constitutes a conspiracy theory. Diamonds in wedding rings are essentially worthless, yet people still pay exorbitant amounts for them. So, I guess I’ll leave it to personal judgment.
The most destructive one I’ve seen has been the anti-vax crowd. Almost feels like a state actor trying to gaslight the world.
yeah… almost.
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Deep State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States -
The moon landing was fake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories -
Proof of aliens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_conspiracy_theories
There is so much material out there from people in the CIA itself telling how the cannon of all this stuff is them making people believe that shit, e.g. area 51 to distract from actual weapon testing. -
Anti-vaxx and other covid related stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation -
Chemtrails
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
Covid must have multiple but I don’t remember hearing about any concrete ones.
I remember “Covid was a Chinese bioweapon” being popular, alongside “Covid is fake and just an excuse for the government to inject us with 5G microchips”
I was scratching my head about this “vaccination with 5G chips” when I heard it. Apart from not being feasible, I was wondering where they got this absurd idea from.
Until I stumbled over a product: You can buy syringes with embedded RFID chips. That you can use to track “best before” dates and lot numbers with. Or one can check if they forgot one inside the patient after a surgery. It has, of course, nothing to do with the contents of the syringes, and of course it is not 5G but NFC/RFID. But yea, for the stupid and confused this is close enough.
The “bioweapon” thing really triggers me. Even if that were true, these racists be attacking anyone that looks Chinese and blame literal civillians for something that a government allegedly did. Absolutely insane.
If someone mentions “Covid” and “Bioweapon” in the same sentence, I’ll gonna keep my distance because I afraid to get attack by a bunch of Karens/Kens for how I look.
That’s because it got mixed up with the very real and muddy “lab leak vs natural jump” debate.
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My least favorite one is ancient aliens, because it is both inspired by Carl Sagan and inspired a ton of sci fi especially Stargate, but it’s also just white supremacy with extra steps.
I’m so conflicted.
How is ancient aliens inspired by Carl Sagan?
He wrote a book in the 60s that kind of suggested it was a possibility, but then walked it back within a few years and criticized people who latched on to it.
Intelligent Life in the Universe is the book.
He also wrote about this in Broca’s Brain
Popular conspiracy theories according to me:
- Fluoridation of municipal water supplies is some evil government program to disperse drugs / chemicals
- Roswell was an alien UFO crash, the aliens / craft are being kept at Area 51.
- JFK was not assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald alone. He was killed by the CIA / 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll.
- Moon landing was faked
- Condensation trails (contrails) from high altitude aircraft are actually chemicals being dispersed by the government (chemtrails)
- The Earth (and only the Earth, not the Sun, moon, other planets) is a flat disc.
- Automakers have cars that run on water but they refuse to sell them to protect the oil industry.
- Global warming / climate change is a hoax to sell solar / wind / hydro power.
- Big pharma / doctors have all the cures but they’re not selling them to keep you sick & them rich
- 9/11 was an inside job (planned by George W. Bush)
- COVID-19 vaccines deposited secret microchips in the population
Most of the flouride stuff ive read about is more about concerns with the toxicity of flouride and some about it promoting calcification of parts of the body.
And a lot of the anti climate change stuff i find is less about promotion of alternatives and more about the government wants to control your freedom, self sustainability, and independence.
It’s all still carefully engineered bullshit, even if you change the details.
My favourite atm is that kirk’s wife had him killed.
Avril Levine was replaced by a clone many years ago
I would guess:
- Moon landing was faked
- Anti-vax stuff.
- The entire scientific community and goverments are making global warming up and hiding evidence to the contrary. Somehow, for some reason.
Popular in media but probably not many actually believe:
- Space aliens are here and goverments somehow are able to hide that. Good luck with that I say.
- The eart is flat and all of academia is teaching the wrong thing. For no reason.
Try selling diamonds jewelary on the second hand market. You’ll get the gold value.
Religion.
I believe many religions are an analogy to the sun, but many people buy into them.
Flat Earth, the New World Order, the Illuminati, Jewish space lasers, Democrats/ Jews controlling the weather. MLK being killed by the government could be considered one, but, well. You know. All the classics.
I like the theory that suggests that JonBenét Ramsey wasn’t killed, and was instead kidnapped and secretly raised by her captors to be a singer, and grew up to become Katy Perry.
Every construct theory in it’s most extreme form always seems to end up antisemitic, so I’d say the antisemitic tropes.
Deep state & FBI cover ups of child sex-trafficking rings run by cabals of shadowy elites linked to the unfalsifiable existence of the Epstein files.
lluminati / New World Order. A secret elite supposedly controls world governments and economies.
In reality, an open elite controls world governments and economies.
I think the only reason this is a conspiracy is because it claims there are shadowy, secret people coordinating their activities and running the world behind the scenes and only the conspiracy theorists will ever be clever enough to figure exactly out who they are.
In reality the political elites and billionaires are already doing exactly that very obviously and in plain sight with zero subtlety, making a public performance out of national relations while regularly meeting and being perfectly cordial and strategizing and horse-trading together behind doors, living a life of wealth and privilege, establishing themselves as minor celebrities and making sure people are always talking about them, and apparently hanging out on tropical islands with child-molesters. We know this is generally factual for very many of them, unless you think all the Wikileaks wires and Epstein files stuff is somehow faked. Unless you just haven’t read them. It’s pretty fucking clear what’s going on in my opinion. No need for a conspiracy to be able to see what’s going on in the circles of power. It’s not much of a secret anymore.
People online actually exist and aren’t just a simulation.
The titanic one is a good one
Fun fact in financial circles its a popular one. Especially given the old money aboard happened to be big in banking and wouldve opposed major central banking laws.
