What is the strangest conspiracy theory that you have ever heard?

[GonzoGamer]

I love conspiracy theories. I don't take any of them seriously but they are very entertaining. Like religions.

My favorite theories are the really far out there ones like the Lizard Men from outer space (read Behold a Pale Horse, or see V-NOT for vendetta) or the really far spreading ones like the Illuminati (read Illuminatus Trilogy or see Gargoyles).

My very favorites are the ones we can interact with like the Alien Autopsy film from the 90s. That was great. (See Alien Autopsy or that episode of Futurama where they go back in time to Roswell in the 50s and Fry becomes his own grandpa: they do an alien autopsy on Zoidberg.

 

[Gamer137]

The Flat Earth Society. Every member of that group needs to be lauched into space with just enough oxygen to last the trip into space. Just before they die, someone on the comm will say, "Does this planet looking fucking flat to you!!!"

 

[ace_of_something]

I think the strangest conspiracy theory is the one that says pot/marijuana is a gateway drug, will make you an evil drug addict and should be illigal.
Yeah my Dad the lawyer and my sister the head of human resources for a major company.... they're such the evil drug addicts, lol

Is your avatar Roger Wilco? if so good job.

Second gateway drug means it's largely harmless and opens the door and mentality that drugs aren't bad. It's not a 'conspiracy' it's based on statistical evidence gathered from the FBI and uniform crime report. I used to be a vice cop. I don't know a single meth/coke/crack/cocaine addict that didn't start with MJ. Not one and I know plenty. There are HOWEVER, plenty of guys that smoke pot and nothing else. It's not an ironclad rule that if you do pot you'll do everything else it just increases the likelihood that's what the 'gateway drug' statement means. The word you're looking for is 'misconception' or 'assumption' not conspericy theory.

I like the CONSPERICY theory that the government doesn't want to legalize marijuana for political reasons.

Side note; Ecstasy is also considered a gateway drug.

 

[JonnWood]

If people were killed for harming America's image, why isn't George W. Bush dead?

"Every paleontologist, biologist, and astronomer on Earth is engaged in a world-spanning, multi-century plot to pretend that 'evolution' is real, when they're simply trying to hide the literal truth of the Book of Genesis."
--Creationism in a nutshell.

Congratulations. You're a bigot [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man].

It's disgusting how many people are using this thread for cheap shots at Christianity.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I love the "9/11 was teh inside jobzors!!!1!!!" people. I can't remember where I read it, but clearly those people are the biggest proof 9/11 wasn't an inside job because they are still here. Honestly, if the U.S. government was willing to kill thousands of people for reasons I'm not actually certain of, don't you think they wouldn't go past killing a few dozen others to make sure their evil scheme stayed a secret?

 

[Korolev]

the moon landing skeptics.

I'm a skeptical guy, I like to be shown evidence of things

but every single claim that the moonlanding conspiracy nuts claim can easily be refuted by science, experiments done by the MythBusters, and other independant labs have shown:

Spoiler: Spoiler'd for length.. I go into detail debunking several of the myths that still linger even though the answers are EASY to grasp

Shadows not being parrallel: "THERE WAS MORE THEN ONE LIGHT SOURCE TO MAKE THOSE SHADOWS!"
No, this is a trick of light when shining on objects that are at different distances from the light source and at different elevations relative to the light source.

Astronauts in the shadows being lit up: "IF THERE WAS ONE LIGHT, THEN HOW CAN WE SEE AN ASTRONAUT WHO'S IN THE SHADOW OF THE LANDER?!"
Light reflects off things.. it's a basic property of light that allows us to see. Sometimes, when the light is particularly bright (such as, during the daylight on the moon), the light will bounce several times before it reaches our eye. Light bounced off the luminous ground of the moon, onto the astronaut, into the camera.. It's the same reason that if you're under a beach umbrella you aren't cloaked in utter darkness.

The flag moving: "OMG!! DID YOU GUYS JUST SEE THAT? THE FLAG WAVED! ITS A VACUUM ON THE MOON! THERES NO WAY IT COULD WAVE!"
Yup, it is a vacuum on the moon, but did you know that air resistance is one of the main reasons why flags on earth in teh same situation would stop flapping? Without the air to slow the flag down, it can "wave" for 5-10x longer then it would on earth. Think of flapping one of those paper fans.. On earth, the harder you flap it, the harder it becomes to move.. that's air resistance.. if you did that in a vacuum, you wouldn't feel any pressure against your movement.

No pictures of the stars: "THEY'RE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING - WE COULD TELL BY LOOKING AT THE STARS WHERE THEY WERE, SO THEY HID THEM!"
The astronauts didn't go to the moon to take pictures of the stars, they went to the moon to take pictures of the moon. Also, it was daylight when they were taking pictures - the reason the earth's sky is blue in daylight is due to water vapor in the air, and the huge amount of blue water in the oceans. The moon doesn't have either of those things.. just lifeless grey plains.. The daylight sky on the moon is black. The sun is still so bright that you can't see the stars, it's just as bright as on earth, but the sky is black. The cameras were set for daylight to get the best pictures of the moons surface, ergo, the stars didn't appear on the film.

Firm footprints: "WATER IS WHAT MAKES FOOTPRINTS DISTINCT ON EARTH! NO WATER ON THE MOON MEANS THE PICTURE OF THE FOOTPRINT MUST BE A FAKE!!"
Well, the dust on earth is different then the dust on the moon. Dust on the moon is jagged, Dust on earth is smooth. There is also a lot more gravity on the earth, pulling the dust down into a indistinct print. Those two factors (jagged dust keeping its shape easier then earth dust, and lower gravity) allow you to make distinct footprints in moon dust on the moon.

Low Gravity Walking: "THEY COULD HAVE EASILY DONE THAT WITH WIRES! I THINK I CAN SEE THEM EVEN!"
While you can get a jump that looks low-g by using wires, the resulting movement doesn't line up with the footage of the astronauts on the moon. Using planes, and going on a parabolic descent, you can experience low-g, similar to that on the moon, and that action look a lot more similar to the moon footage then using wires.

Our lack of return trips: "IF WE WENT 30 YEARS AGO, WHY DIDN'T WE GO BACK!?"
Well, we did, a couple times, but once we had beaten the russians to the moon, and we were deep in the middle of the cold war, there wasn't money, or real reason to go back to the moon. It was a really really expensive and dangerous proposition to go to the moon, and without any real reason to, it sort of faded away in light of better goals. However, we are having talks of going back to the moon recently, and maybe when our space shuttles get replaced, we'll go back. In the meantime, we have the ISS to work with in space.

edit: I say "Our" as the west.. I'm canadian, and we sort of piggy back on the US.. I mean the west when i say Our.

actually, i have a claim you cannot dispute at all: in a 2003 press conference, a NASA Public relations person (they don't like non-PR types talking to the media) admitted, and I quote, "we do not currently have the technology to send a spaceship safely to the moon and bring it back with its crew." so how could they have done it 30 years ago?
also, a reporter asked Buzz Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he had really gone to the moon, Buzz pucnhed him in the face instead. while I accept the possibility that buzz may not have been religious, couldn't he have simply suggested something else to swear upon, rather than knocking some teeth?

1) NASA scrapped the rockets that could take people to the moon. No doubt, NASA COULD build them up again, for what? They were massively expensive, dangerous, and after the first few times people went to the moon, there was no point to it. There's almost nothing there of any value. Going to the moon requires VERY specialized equipment. When NASA stopped GOING there because there was no BLOODY POINT TO IT, (other than massive bragging rights), they scrapped all the technology because A) They thought they wouldn't need to go to the moon again for a while, and B) By the time they DID want to go back to the moon, they'd have BETTER technology with which to do it.

And 2) As for Buzz Aldrin punching a guy - that was because the conspiracy theorist was stalking him, harrassing him, and generally being a jerk. Buzz had to put up with him for a long, long time - it wasn't a one off incident that he was harrassing Buzz. So Buzz did what anyone would do when being constantly stalked by a moron - he punched him in his stupid mouth.

Like the 9/11 people, the Moon Landing Hoax theorists WANT it to be true, form the opinion first and then look for evidence that agrees with them. Go to "Bad Astronomy" or NASA's own website - all the Moon Landing Hoax claims are false. The entire theory was born from people who did not do enough research into the moon landing and thus uncovered "flaws" that weren't flaws at all. Even though NASA and pretty much the ENTIRE scientific community shot down these stupid theories, stupid people don't like being told they are stupid, so they persistently believe this nonsense.

We went to the moon. We did. The evidence is overwhelming. Again, go to the website BadAstronomy or NASA's own page answering the "questions" posed by these nutbags. 99% of the EDUCATED scientific community also agrees we went to the moon. We did. Humanity is capable of accomplishing anything it wants to.

No doubt when the Chinese land on the moon in about 20 years, you'll claim it's also a fake. No evidence can convince you. Because you WANT there to a conspiracy, you LIKE conspiracies, they make you feel important and SPECIAL for being "in the know".

Reality doesn't care what you think of it.

 

[PhantomCritic]

i like the one that says that women don't actually have periods and that it's something they made up to let them be angry once a month.

That JFK was assasinated. Wait a minute! He was?...oh, that explains a lot.

believe me man, that conspirasy is just the beginning, there was one i heard awhile back that JFK's brain went missing after the "assasaination" and that white supremisists kept it hidden so that in the future they could get the secrets they needed to answer their question, why black men and women, are black.

 

[ace_of_something]

That Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in the mid-60's and The Beatles replaced him and spent loads of money on plastic surgery to make him look like Paul.

I like that one of the arguments for that is that a walrus is the Viking symbol of death. Which is bullcrap. But a hilarious image. Large men with axes sailing the treacherous sea icicles hanging from their majestic beards with icicles clinging to them. Then fear incarnate the dread walrus.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Some crazy guy said that the sniper update in TF2 was really the spy update... oh wait...

 

[BioEnchanted]

BTW a warning about flat-earth society's website: It has at least 2 viruses. My protection software saw a couple of bad things, and I closed the window to keep them out.

 

[Unknower]

Probly the one where the British government was just a bunch of massive alien lizards in disguise...

One of the worst arguements that supported the moon landing being faked was that theres a cloud of radiation around the earth preventing rockets from escaping. I mean wtf?

People who use Van Allen's radiation belt as a "proof" fail to realize that radiation doesn't cause instant death. Now, I don't know how much VA's belt radiates, but I'm pretty sure it's not enough to give you radiation poisoning. Probably just a higher chance to get cancer.

 

[Utarefson]

Some people (and even important politicians) in germany think that videogames are murder simulations made by the white house and u.s. army to militarize the youth...and that's why america is responsible for the german school schootings, not stuff like bullying or similar bullshit.

http://www.gwg-ev.org/cms/cms.php?fileid=411

http://translate.google.com/translate_t#


Mr. Obama, i demand a reaction on that.

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Humans were created by all-powerful lizard people.

Jewish stringrays did 9/11

 

[Triple AD]

Dunno erm... everything that I said's already been said

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

- the reason the earth's sky is blue in daylight is due to water vapor in the air, and the huge amount of blue water in the oceans. The moon doesn't have either of those things.. just lifeless grey plains.. The daylight sky on the moon is black -

Ugh... Please tell me thats a joke...
If not, I will gladly explain that the sky being blue actually has very little to do with the colour of the oceans...

Any who, the whole Titanic thing seems a little suss, no?

This video may shock you, so proceed with caution...
Its a joke, think about it too hard...

Yeah, that video is a joke. I'm guessing that's maddox from "the best page in the universe".

 

[I Max95]

I heard about someone saying the 9/11 bombing plane was a holagram and bombs were placed to blow up the building for some sort of propaganda against terrorists all bulls***

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

No one gunna mention Charles Manson here? About how he needs to initiate a war between black people and white people, then when the black people win they will not know what to do without a white person telling them, so they'll go find Charlie and him their king.

 

[Kuala BangoDango]

One from one of the senior management at my school. There's all of these clean, green power generating windmills on the hills outside town, and the town and power companies are proud that they're making eco-friendly electricity. Straight-faced, the teacher says that the windmills are a conspiracy, and there's coal-burners under them turning them around and the power company hates the environment, they only want to make it look like they have green power so people don't say bad things about them. That teacher is mad, mad I say!

Actually this one is true. I'm the guy that shovels the coal into the furnaces underneath the windmills each morning, afternoon, and evening (another guy takes over for the night shift).

I just have to remember not to put coal in them on days where there's no wind (can't have the windmills turning on a still day).

 

[Altorin]

the moon landing skeptics.


No pictures of the stars: "THEY'RE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING - WE COULD TELL BY LOOKING AT THE STARS WHERE THEY WERE, SO THEY HID THEM!"
The astronauts didn't go to the moon to take pictures of the stars, they went to the moon to take pictures of the moon. Also, it was daylight when they were taking pictures - the reason the earth's sky is blue in daylight is due to water vapor in the air, and the huge amount of blue water in the oceans. The moon doesn't have either of those things.. just lifeless grey plains.. The daylight sky on the moon is black. The sun is still so bright that you can't see the stars, it's just as bright as on earth, but the sky is black. The cameras were set for daylight to get the best pictures of the moons surface, ergo, the stars didn't appear on the film.

Water vapor/atmosphere yes, blue oceans ... no. when sent through a prism blue light bends the most, the water vapor in the air and atmosphere act like a prism. That is why the sky is blue, and sunsets are red and yellow (short answer). The rest of the post was excellent though.

I concede, my point is that the sky on the moon is black in the daylight

Consider too, that reporters and very dumb people have been hounding him about this for going on 40 years now, and he's is incredibly tired of dealing with their crap. This specific reporter he slugged had been on Buzz's case and being extremely obnoxious to him for months, and then he runs up to him with a Bible and tries to humiliate him in public. Good for Buzz, the ol' geezer! That dude picked on an old guy long enough and the old guy finally punched him in the face, and the balance is returned to the Force.

Yeah, him getting pissed off and clocking a reporter for spitting on his good word for 40 years isn't evidence that they faked it.

I also heard someone trying to pass the picture of the astronauts seemingly "unable tolook Nixon in the face when they came back" as evidence... like.. seriously? They had just spent a couple weeks floating around in a tin can pissing in a giant condom and shitting in an adhesive ass gasket, I'd be fucking tired and wouldn't want to be hounded by the press, or Nixon.

It's not evidence in the slightest