In your opinion, what's the most stupid conspiracy theory?

[NeuroAtypical]

In my opinion, the conspiracy theory about "vaccines can cause autism", this fake news is very old, but there are still people who defend this, especially antivax.

[GloriousZote]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von =(^ ^)=:

I know planty but this one deserves it for how ignorant it is. It comes from the North European far right wing.

According to them, the neanderthals were living in North Europe, then the Romans infiltrated them, making them black haired.


FACTS


The ♥♥♥♥ sapiens were developed around 200.000 years ago.

The neanderthals were developed around 40.000 years ago.

The neanderthals were called this because they were found in Holland. There is no science to prove they were blondes.

In Italy, around Tuscania, they have found hundreds of neanderthals.

The neanderthals were stupid and they could not adapt well. Meanwhile, the ♥♥♥♥-Sapiens spread all around the world.

Roma, ♥♥♥♥ sapiens sapiens, arrived in 753BC. At this time all the neanderthals were dead.

It is called neanderthals because it was first found in Holland, but archeology has found thousands of them in Italy.


If those nuts far right from northern Europe would study a little archeology and do some math, they would figure out what a nonsense conspiracy they have made.

Italian propaganda

[Under there]

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Either way, real or fake I do think the moon landing conspiracy is like so harmless. How does my life change if its real? It doesn't. How does my life change if it fake? It doesn't.

It was the pride of nations on the line at the time.

why does it make them so angry?
i seriously don't understand moonies

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

i could go either way on moon
i think they went
but i think maybe they had backup plan if it failed with fake footage "just in case" that maybe got mixed up with the real stuff. Those astronauts said some weird stuff after the mission in the interview and looked ashamed sort of

[GloriousZote]

I do think flat earth is really dumb, but for an additional reason.

Why?
Why the ♥♥♥♥ would they lie about it?
Most other conspiracies would at least have merits - hollow earth/lizard people means there's a secret society/shadow government, moon landing is a faux show of power..
What in the ever-living ♥♥♥♥ would be the point of lying about the planet's shape?

[Haruspex]

The stupidest ones are things like flat earth, Elvis being still alive, the moon landing being faked etc. The sort of thing you might find in National Enquirer back in the 90s.

The most dangerous ones are the ones that rile certain people up. Get them scared and paranoid. Make them think some other group of people are out to get them. Encourage violence without actually directly encouraging violence.

Just last November a man in Ohio shot and killed his neighbor while he was doing yard work because "he thought he was a Democrat". The September before that a man in North Dakota killed an 18 year old with his vehicle because he believed him to be part of a "Republican extremist group".

We've always had gullible crazies, but now they can use the Internet to join groups of like-minded gullible crazies and reinforce their own craziness. I think the Internet became a part of our lives much too quickly, and society as a whole is adjusting to it poorly.

[Worldzworstgamer]

OP is a Liberal trying to stir up **** I guarantee. OP how many conspiracy theories have become the truth in recent years?

[Under there]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GloriousZote:

I do think flat earth is really dumb, but for an additional reason.

Why?
Why the ♥♥♥♥ would they lie about it?
Most other conspiracies would at least have merits - hollow earth/lizard people means there's a secret society/shadow government, moon landing is a faux show of power..
What in the ever-living ♥♥♥♥ would be the point of lying about the planet's shape?

destabilizing religion
establishing a new status quo for "science"
limiting human curiosity and exploration
demoralization. "we've seen it all already".
not to mention the kind of control that deciding what a map looks like gives you.
there is a lot of reasons, but all it takes for me is the frothing mouths of people getting angry when i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to make me scratch my chin a little bit and wonder if something isn't quite right.

[GloriousZote]

The term "Conspiracy Theory" itself is bait, it leads us to believe that the most ridiculous theories are those of people conspiring against us.
The real stupid theories however, are those that claim that nobody is trying to harm us.

[Grendalcat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 240p enjoyer:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ⛧:

Either way, real or fake I do think the moon landing conspiracy is like so harmless. How does my life change if its real? It doesn't. How does my life change if it fake? It doesn't.

It was the pride of nations on the line at the time.

why does it make them so angry?
i seriously don't understand moonies

I don't know about angry, but it is an insult to all the hard work done by the people at NASA.

[Delta]

That Aliens built the statues on Easter Island

[WhiteKnight77]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grendalcat:

I vote for the "moon landings were a hoax" as the stupidest. Why? Do you realize how many thousands of people would have to be in on it? Not possible.

And this is why 9-11 was not an inside job. With as many people who claimed to have hated Bush, someone surely would have gone to the press about being asked to do strange things on that day, yet no one did. Too many people to keep it secret.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von WhiteKnight77:

It is a toss up between chem trails and 9-11 being an inside job.

Inside job might be a stretch but someone definitely knew what was going to happen, similarly to Pearl Harbor.

The warning was given when Bin Laden issued a Fatwa in 1996 while Clinton was in office. He had a chance to take Bin Laden out, but didn't.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GloriousZote:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grendalcat:

Yes but they are dedicated intelligence agents. If the moon landings were faked, some of those engineers and technicians would have exposed it by now.

Also the secrets kept by the CIA tend to be less visible than the moon landings.

Oh? Did you see the moon landing other than the video?

Proof we made it to the moon: You can still bounce a laser off it today[wtop.com]

[Charles]

The Russian Collusion conspiracy theory was pretty stupid.

[nohuman]

Pretty much all of them. Unless there is some actual meat on the bones I'm not interested.

[nohuman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von abraham:

The Russian Collusion conspiracy theory was pretty stupid.

Plenty of meat on those bones however...

[UtahGlazer3000]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von kilésengati:

Another all-time favourite of mine is "Birds aren't real". They think birds are actually government spy drones. First of all, this doesn't make them less real to me, just a different thing from what they are defined as by government agents. But that's just semantics, I guess.

And still, they couldn't be more wrong: Birds are actually alien space ships!

The theory was made by people parodying conspiracy theorists and I love that fact