What's your favourite conspiracy theory?

Question

Boy, aren't there some nutters out there in YA land? Here a few I've seen in the last 5 minutes: all vaccines are bad for you, 9/11 was not caused by muslim extremists, crop circles are by aliens (yes, some people still believe that old one!), man never landed on the moon!

Did they ever hear Sagan's famous words "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? Obviously not!

I vote we ask for a new catagories section 'Conspiracy theories'.

Answer 1

One of the funniest conspiracy ideas I've heard in a long time is the "heavenly" sort. It's from fundamentalist creationist Christians who -- finding that they can't credibly deny fossilized remains of prehistoric beasts millions of years old -- claim that the devil put the fossils there to try to trick the faithful into believing the Earth is more than a few thousand years old. A variation of this is that God, not the devil, did hid the dinosaur bones to test his followers.

People actually *believe* this.

Answer 2

A little something for all of you to think about (based on my medical/sciences background…)

Vaccines:
are a wonderful thing. However, they do damage at the cellular level which can cause future risks such as cancer. Don't believe me? Contact your local governing body over doctors.

911: your Government is responsible for several atrocities. If you new the truth of just a fraction of them you would be ashamed…

Crop circles: Yes a lot of beer guzzling stoners out there with nothing better to do with their time, some rope and wooden planks. However, don't dismiss the crop that have exploded from the inside out due to high levels of radiation. Especially the ones that are not on someone's farm where hoaxers can conceal their tracks by walking over the existing pathways.

Moon: yes there is a lot of that here on Yahoo Answers. Just remember that in a court of law decisions are based on evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. If you gather the evidence on the FIRST moon landing you will find inconsistencies, missing data, things that don't make sense, and things that do that points to a cover up. This would fail in a court of law.

I conduct my own research because I don't trust what is presented to me. You all should do the same, for this is the only way you will know the truth. For all of you that feel safe in your own little world that is presented to you…so be it. Sometimes it's better living this way, away from the truth. The way a mother would cover the ears and eye's of her child to prevent horror, corruption and retaliation. But tell me this…. As an adult… How would you feel now if it was revealed to you that your parents were always evil?

Answer 3

Has to be the killing of JFK. Never in history was there such a coverup. Disregarded facts, disregarded figures, and of course, the "set-up" killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, so as the truth could never be known. So....the Dallas police have the suspect of the century and they want to move him. So they tell the entire world when and where that move will take place, and then allow most anyone to simply walk into the staging area for that move. And then seal the records for over 25 years. Anyone of us who believes that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK is not looking at the facts. He was a patsy that needed to be eliminated as soon as possible and the Dallas police made that possible. Want to know the truth about the JFK killing ask LBJ, but, oh yeah, to late for that to.

Answer 4

The one about there is no Santa Claus, please, and the Easter Bunny, I just cannot take that one either. I think the one about JFK was not killed by Oswald. No Oswald might have been connected to all sorts of people, and yes there might have been someone else shooting from another area, and here again, Johnson did hate the Kennedy brothers, and had his cowboy mafia friends bump him off, or Castro, he might have had a hand in it. Just so many conspiracy theories, and Hoover didn't like them, so he did it, and just the old school Mafia boys did it. There were so many that were after them, that I think they were all down there in Dallas and the first one who kills poor Kennedy wins. Isn't it sad that JFK had so many enemies, and was running around to boot, so Jackie might have hired a hit man. It is sad, and I am from Dallas, but who knows. I like this one, because there are so many to chose from. Oswald lived just down the street from my aunt at the time, rented a room in a house three doors down. He wanted to have fame and he got it. His gun was not good enough, however, to have done that and he was a good shot, but not that good. JFK was shot from two different angles, I believe they proved later. I love to try to figure out this one.

Answer 5

Yes! I do believe "Conspiracy theories should be a category". I should find out how to go about putting in a request for that. Is there a "suggestion box" or anything on Yahoo Q&A?

Answer 6

French government's attempted cover-up following Emile Zola's accusations in the Dreyfus Affair, or in the efforts by the Tsar's secret police to foment anti-Semitism by presenting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an authentic text

Answer 7

Yes, conspiratism needs it's own category. My favourite conspiracy theory is that the more outlandish conspiracy theories are spread by a government agency in order to discredit the "reasonable" conspiracy theories.

Answer 8

Definately a conspiracy section. If the government says something does not exit, it probably does exist; any thing from UFOs to conspiracies.

Answer 9

I recently heard....that Bush Jr. began as an intern during the JFK era and planned the assasination so the event could trigger his eventual rise to the white house.

Answer 10

Hmmm indeed the crop circle has to be my all time fav.......though the conspiracy around 9/11 does have extrordinaty proof and evidence.....just people dont want to bother.