A Question about Conspiracy Theories

There are so many conspiracy theories out there. We never landed on the moon. 9/11 was an inside job. Second gunman at the Kennedy assassination. So many more.

What in your opinion, is the one conspiracy theory that JUST MIGHT be true? (Doesn't have to be selected from just those three).

Of the one's you mentioned, second gunman seems most possible to me.

Landing on the moon obviously. I mean what, we're just supposed to believe that they were able to go like, really high up in the sky and like, be on the moon and like, it's just all very far-fetched. Know what I'm saying?

That the government puts chemicals in our drinking water...

That the government puts chemicals in our drinking water...

heysharpshooter

Im convinced.

The ones that have been confirmed as true obviously. Like MKULTRA, a set of secret CIA projects conducted in 1950s and 1960s that tried to find a way to control people's minds (the idea being that the CIA would then brainwash double agents and turn them against their own country). While most of the experiments involved people getting slipped LSD in one way or another (both with and without their knowledge), the one that really sounded like something a conspiracy nutjob would come up with was subproject 68:

In 1957, with funding from a CIA front organization, Dr. Ewan Cameron of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada began MKULTRA Subproject 68. His experiments were designed to first "depattern" individuals, erasing their minds and memories-reducing them to the mental level of an infant-and then to "rebuild" their personality in a manner of his choosing. To achieve this, Cameron placed patients under his "care" into drug-induced comas for up to 88 days, and applied numerous high voltage electric shocks to them over the course of weeks or months, often administering up to 360 shocks per person. He would then perform what he called "psychic driving" experiments on the subjects, where he would repetitively play recorded statements, such as "You are a good wife and mother and people enjoy your company", through speakers he had implanted into blacked-out football helmets that he bound to the heads of the test subjects (for sensory deprivation purposes). The patients could do nothing but listen to these messages, played for 16–20 hours a day, for weeks at a time. In one case, Cameron forced a person to listen to a message non-stop for 101 days. Using CIA funding, Cameron converted the horse stables behind Allen Memorial into an elaborate isolation and sensory deprivation chamber which he kept patients locked in for weeks at a time. Cameron also induced insulin comas in his subjects by giving them large injections of insulin, twice a day for up to two months at a time. Several of the children who Cameron experimented on were sexually abused, in at least one case by several men. One of the children was filmed numerous times performing sexual acts with high-ranking federal government officials, in a scheme set up by Cameron and other MKULTRA researchers, to blackmail the officials to ensure further funding for the experiments.wikipedia

As it turns out you can't really keep huge conspiracy plots secret for very long. Either someone with a conscience will leak it to the public or human incompetence will spill the beans for you (which is what happened to MKULTRA; all its files were supposed to be destroyed after the pentagon papers were leaked but a clerical error sent them to a warehouse instead).

The Lizard-People are obviously 100% real.

And, the rumors are true, Paul McCartney did die back in '66.

The ones that are true are probably the ones that we don't even know about, because the people running them were actually halfway competent and don't let some kid with publicly available footage and Windows Movie Maker bring down their whole operation.

Roswell. It has to be real. The Government is keeping a ton of stuff under secrecy from the public.Victors_Valiant

That the government puts chemicals in our drinking water...

heysharpshooter

It's called fluoride, and I don't think that's a conspiracy theory. :P

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That the government puts chemicals in our drinking water...

GabuEx

It's called fluoride, and I don't think that's a conspiracy theory. :P

Im not talking about fluoride... other things...

Its wierd, but the government has secretly tested chemicals on the US populace all the time, through out history...

I am not saying that all day, every day they are pumping crazy mind control drugs into all the water sources in the US... people would find out... if I drank a cup of tap water right now, Im 99% positive that I would not be ingesting some super secret chemical...

But in controlled enviroments, on control populations... who knows?...

Of the one's you mentioned, second gunman seems most possible to me.

aransom

I agree with this guy. However, the other ones are just ridiculous (not to mention the moon one was disproved on Mythbusters) and I think they are crazy. No disrespect to people who beleive them, though.

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That the government puts chemicals in our drinking water...

heysharpshooter

It's called fluoride, and I don't think that's a conspiracy theory. :P

Im not talking about fluoride... other things...

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[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

It's called fluoride, and I don't think that's a conspiracy theory. :P

aransom

Im not talking about fluoride... other things...

Nice job not reading the rest of the post...