10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

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Conspiracy is dictionary defined as a secret plan to deceive. There is mass evidence that we are confronted indirectly with conspiracies everyday in every day life, because there are many bodies intent on deceiving - Big Pharma, political parties, corporates, governments, agencies like the NSA, CIA, Al Quaeda...

Dismissing someone as a conspiracy theorist is a cheap shot promoted by a biased media to silence critics of whichever conspirators any particular media supports (and may receive financial kickbacks from).

These days, you would have to be pretty naive not to believe in conspiracies; there are probably more now than ever before at any point in history.

People who blithely throw "conspiracy theorist" at anyone whose opinions they happen to disagree with advertise their own ignorance, or a preference for the ostrich position, sadly.

Yep. In the United States, at least, there is a certain percentage of the residents who believe that the government (and large corporations) can do no wrong despite all the evidence to the contrary. Sadly, I believe that they are either too nostalgic for the former post-war euphoria, or that they realize what has happened and see it requiring them to work too hard to correct the trend now.

For me, the truth is as appealing as it is convincing.

Tinfoil hat guy who was ridiculed for claiming the U.S. government and it's allies were collecting on monitoring all forms of communications.

It was from the late 1990s, the internet made a gif out of it mocking him and his fellow friends.

In the end he was more right than he even knew!

Of course conspiracies exist.

I don't have have a problem with the idea of conspiracy theories. However there are some common weakness in some of them:

• The actual point of taking said action, what it would actually achieve, and whether it is even necessary or advantageous for their supposed aims.
• Why such powerful forces need to be so covert rather than just overt?.
• A tendency to see think in black and white good/evil terms and also lump all bad thing together as a single force. It also tend to absolve themselves of human nature in the process.
• The point of leaving obscure clues to the true believer for no apparent objective.
• The manpower and logistics needed to carry out the conspiracy in reality conflicting with the self interest of those involved, who don't seem to all have an interest in keeping the conspiracy secret.
• Schizotypal assumption chaining. Seeing certain pasterns at the exclusion of other possibilities, and simply "proving" yourself right. Certain personalities are more susceptible to magical thinking.
• The history of real conspiracies being quite bit messier, and difficult to keep under control.
• Contrarianism and susceptibility to propaganda. If you don't trust once party you are more open to suggestion from another. The key thing is to treat every explanation with equal skepticism.

This thread needs more George Carlin...

The 'P2 Lodge'
is a good one too

There are also politically correct conspiracy theories. Such as "Al Qaeda did 9/11" which are difficult to challenge. To the extent of skeptics of them being called 'conspiracy theorists', even when they don't advocate an alternative conspiracy theory.

And, the Pvt. Jessica Lynch and the Cpl. Pat Tillman stories ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jessica-lyn ... d-straight ).

Skepticism means not taking what you are told at face value. Skepticism doesn't mean coming up with an elaborate alternative. You need to be skeptical of that too.

The problem with governments is real historical conspiracies like the overthrow of the elected prime minister of Iran in the 50s, give good reasons to distrust.

The problem for citizens is whether they believe conspiracies or not is they are still susceptible to suggestion, propaganda and historical revisionism. Taking a different position doesn't remove the susceptibility.

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I agree with you.. Many "truthers" are extremely dogmatic, and they also have an ideology behind that.


Like extreme nationalists. If there is a conspiracy against such people, the I hope it succeeds.

But, as more and more truth is admitted by those who conspired previously and repeatedly ( http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/03/ ... more-42884 ), it becomes difficult to believe anything they say. When governments are fundamentally structured to lie to their own tax-paying, voting, citizens (a.k.a. employers), those who do speak truth become revolutionaries. During times of universal deceit, there might be no completely true statements, but, certain statements are much truer than others. Considering this, I would believe Charles Manson before I believe a government worker.

This thread still needs another George Carlin clip...

The predicament here with stringent conspiratorialism (HIV/AIDS denialism, Freemasonry, Evolution denialism, Hollow earth, Faith Healing, Satanic yoga, Holocaust denial, dinosaurs helped the pyramid constructions, religious prophecies, chemtrails, Sandy Hook and Moon landing hoaxes etc) is that their Dunning Kruger infiltrated minds dissuade the skeptic community into a formulation of social conditioning characterized as "debunking groupthink," which undermines freedom of thought by collective rationalization by dismissing those propounding the more overlooked cover-ups that are pragmatic and abide to the principles of natural law as crank magnets who believe the earth was created 5,700 to 10,000 years ago; thus, the skeptics become as doctrinarian as the gnostic theists and the NWO truthers. Neither the gnostic fragmentation of the truther nor skeptic movements can sufficiently explicate what theories are true and what's not, but it's the militantly atheistic and transcendent debunkers (whether they are "compassionate" neo-cons, secular "progressive humanists," neurodiversity supremacists or social justice warriors (SJWs)) who repudiate any sort of conspiracy whatsoever are the ones who are in unabridged denial.

Here's a few of my foreseeable exemplifications of conspiracy (very independent and atypical of the Illuminati herd mentality)

Iraq War Hoax: Tony Blair, George Bush and their neo-conservative revolutionaries deceived the public about the WMD's.

Supranational institutions such as IMF, World Bank, NATO, Untied Nations, EU, WTO are undermining the individual sovereignty of nation states; furthermore, supranationalist banking institutions such as the IMF and World Bank are advertently hindering the efficiency of a free market economy and are destroying worldwide economies through repetitious fiat monetary printing (not just the Federal Reserve believers) and redistribute inflation via the fractional reserve banking system.

Cultural Marxism (Frankfurt School's Critical Theory) is the most verifiable ideological denominator behind counter-cultural identity politics, "permissive society," moral relativism, "alternative lifestyles," cultural pessimism, nanny statism that are all aimed to destroy individualism, free enterprise and traditional morality by replacing them with collectivism, internationalized central planning and Orwellian ideological conformance.

I believe that Aspartame is the new asbestos and that fluoridated water is preventing the herd to think critically.

Marijuana was banned because of it's threats to the corporate profits of the pharmaceutical and paper industries (I believe the drugs war has been a complete scam and failure anyway).

Thorium as an environmentally friendly and efficient power source was routinely suppressed due to it's lack of potentiality for biological warfare.

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