In groups, at work, waiting at the box office and doctors’ offices, more and more people will meet who think that the coronavirus is a theater, and its patients are actors, that John F. Kennedy was not killed, that Elvis lives and other fictions.
In fact, many times this “owner of the truth” will try to convince the hostage with arguments, eventually claiming that the “skeptics” are part of the conspiracy.
There are sometimes grains of truth in conspiracies. They may be completely true – like the Watergate office break-in, which, although initially denounced as a conspiracy, was and was the reason for the exposure of the scandal of the same name.
However, with social media algorithms pushing users towards ever more extreme conspiracy content, spreading conspiracy theories has never been easier or more common.
11 September
Conspiracy theorists have many convoluted “explanations” for what happened on September 11, 2001 in the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon. Some of them claim that everything that was done was known to then President George W. Bush, his Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking officials of the American administration.
One of the popular conspiracy theories about this particular day is that it was the work of Israel. While another, based on the argument that “jet fuel cannot melt steel beams”, claims that the World Trade Center skyscrapers collapsed after a controlled explosion that detonated explosives planted before they were hit aircraft.
Death of Princess Diana
The death of Princess Diana on August 31, 1997 immediately caused a storm of rumors. As in the case of John F. Kennedy, the thought of the death of a famous, beloved person at such a young age was shocking, and many refused to believe it. With them was the same Mohamed al-Fayed, who had just lost his son Dodi in an accident.
So, according to this particular plot, it was not a car accident, but a murder carried out by British intelligence agencies at the request of the royal family. Al-Fayed’s claims were formally investigated and dismissed as “unsubstantiated”, with the coroner ruling that Diana and Dodi were killed due to the negligence of their drunk driver.
“No” man set foot on the moon
In 1969, humanity watched in awe as the then new TV technologies emerged as the first astronauts walked on the moon. But this is exactly what conspiracy theorists dispute. They say that this mission never took place. Something that, among other things, was reproduced in a documentary by the American network Fox.
In fact, this conspiracy resulted in Buzz Aldrin being punched in the face by his supporter, Bart Shibrell, calling him “a coward and a liar”.
Kennedy assassination
John F. Kennedy fell dead in 1963 in an open car in Dallas. But did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone for personal reasons? Or was there a second shooter suggesting some other assassination plot?
This view has been the subject of endless rumors and hundreds of books, articles, films, and analyses. Adding fuel to the fire of theories was the fact that Oswald himself was killed two days later, while in the basement of the Dallas police station, surrounded by a crowd of officers.
“It stinks,” thought many. And they blamed, among other things, the Castro government in Cuba, organized crime, the CIA, Vice President Lyndon Johnson and many others as masterminds of the assassination.
Roswell and the UFO
If there was one truth that united most skeptics with conspiracy theorists, it was that something did indeed crash on a remote ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
Initially, the US government talked about a flying saucer, and then dropped the talk about a weather balloon. Rumors of the discovery and examination of “foreign corpses”, as well as the cover-up of this mysterious case by the government, appeared much later, three decades later, with the release of a book that became the fuse for an orgy of rumors that continues to this day.
Officially, this was indeed a cover-up by the US government, not about a supposed extraterrestrial find, but about a Cold War spy program called Project Mogul that was exposed in a top-secret plane crash. military balloon.
These balloons were flown using dummies that were placed in insulating bags to protect temperature-sensitive equipment. These bags have been described by at least one eyewitness as “corpse bags” in which aliens that had suffered from UFO crashes were placed. Source: US Air Force via AP.
Satanism
For years in the 1980s and 1990s, America was gripped by a nationwide frenzy due to an underground network of Satanists working together to kidnap, torture and abuse children.
A highlight was Geraldo Rivera’s infamous NBC show, which aired on October 28, 1988, in which self-proclaimed “Satan experts” quoted inaccurate and misleading facts on air.
Air sprays
In flight, planes leave behind a white trail, the so-called chemtrails, which are nothing more than traces of water vapor that quickly disappear.
However, according to some conspiracy theorists, these white streaks in the sky are not fake at all, as they believe they are chemical and biological sprays that governments release into the atmosphere as part of secret programs. For what reason; Biological warfare, population manipulation, attempts to control the weather are some of the common responses.
Covid and 5G
In the case of the corona virus, there were many who peddled that the virus was created in Wuhan labs. How scientists lied about those who died from the pandemic – who died for other reasons. How radiation from 5G antennas weakens the immune system of people who get sick and die. How Covid vaccines contain tracking chips connected to 5G networks so that the government or, why not, billionaire vaccine proponent Bill Gates can track all movements.
no birds
The “birds aren’t real” conspiracy is a movement started by 23-year-old Peter McIntowe in 2017. He promoted his doctrine that the birds were surveillance drones launched by the US government to monitor citizens. This “movement” had personnel, organized demonstrations, advertised their ideas on billboards.
All this until 2021, when he told the New York Times that he created the character to show how things work in the Internet age.
“Yes, we have been deliberately spreading disinformation for the last four years, but for one purpose. This is a mirror of America in the age of the Internet,” he said, admitting that it was all done in the context of a parody.
the earth is flat
What if people knew from ancient times that the Earth is spherical…
Unable to see beyond the horizon, the flat earthers, the flat earthers, believe that there is an end to the earth, a flat earth.
This is a theory that first appeared in the 1950s and was reborn in the age of the Internet giant, when its proponents analyze physics, gravity and astronomy on YouTube to confirm the truth of their faith.
Source: live science
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