conspiracy theories

I'm graduating from college this year, if all goes well, and am now on my last semester before I get a Bachelor's. As part of a Pluralism and Diversity requirement that's mandatory to graduate, I had to take an African American studies class and took an African American literature class...

Nice meta-summary of "conspiranoia" as social control, implications for 911 activists Full thread title: Nice meta-summary of "conspiranoia" as a means of social control, and implications for 911 street activists From: Towards a Theory of Conspiracy Theories This essay doesn't support the...

:) After years of research into the world of high crimes, political corruption, murder, and treason, I have discovered perhaps the best source for in depth and well documented information available anywhere on the internet. If you would like to know what has actually been happening in the world...

Okay just what are you guys doing ? And what about this "black budget"? can you send me some money ? Dr.Colin Ross claims that magicians are part of a CIA Mind Control Operation: http://www.whale.to/b/bowart3.html "At a workshop he held at the 9th Annual Western Clinical Conference on Trauma...

Reading over yet another JKF conspiracy theory thread it occurred to me... why do all the theorists assume Oswald had to be framed? Isn't it a much simpler conspiracy theory to just claim he was in on it? I mean, he didn't appear to be pro-Kennedy, it's hardly a stretch to say someone talked...

Believe it or not, this associate of mine sent me this email as a 'Happy New Year Message'. I think this sums up the way a lot of truther's minds work (or don't, apparently). Read the email, but brace yourself for some strong woo. I have altered any name references to maintain privacy. Then...

Ok I haven't been following the news much, I went down to the pub to grab a pint and lo and behold it turns out the country is upside down freaking out over two failed Terror attacks on airplanes. On the tail end of this I hear Joe Liberman is screetching about how we need to preemptively...

Hello, all. I'm fishing for genuine thoughts regarding a controversial issue with broad political implications. Imagine some person wearing a fedora hat walks up to you and tells you al Megrahi and the Libyans were framed for the Lockerbie bombing. Now pretend this is a person you know and...

As sceptics we seek the truth, we consider evidence without prejudice. We have no predetermined opinions. The internet has filled our lives with information, but not necessarily with facts. The truth is out there, somewhere, but often hidden in a sea of opinions and rhetoric. So what can we do...

From David Aaronovitch in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704238104574602042125998498.html Now I'm sure this has been said before and those are just a few CTs, but I'm wondering if this hypothesis can be expanded upon. HAARP as a weapon...

I'm just curious how you would answer this question. "What's the harm in believing in conspiracy theories?"

I wrote an article recently debunking Freeman on the Land Woo, as well as another one that sort of debunks conspiracy theories in general. In this article, I pointed out that all the known conspiracies in history (Watergate, Iran Contra, MKULTRA, etc) we're exposed by the government or Media...

Looks like it will be on at prime time for conspiratards. ;) http://thewrestlingdaily.com/?p=3531

I heard a rumor that Obama is going to tax vital medical equipment to obtain the funds he needs to balance and maintain his new medical policy. (This info bugger is sketchy as hell so it's being put in the conspiracy theory section. I'm looking for info on debunk/confirm this info.)

CT fears about flies that are spies may be truer than many skeptics thought. DARPA is working on cyborg insects. :scared:

Alex Jones has been hyping for the past weeks about something he will announce today. He says that it will make national news and after the announcement he will have some big guest about the issue. What do you think it is? Jimmy Carter coming out as a 9/11 truther? Jones and Ventura running for...

We all know that the late blight that is blighting tomatoes and potatoes is a real :rule10 but there was a story in Central Maine Morning Sentinel that it was terrorism. Sense I haven't heard Fox say "Boo" (and they will jump on anything remotely 'terror') I am calling "Woo". If I am...

I could have posted this in Politics or Literature, but I wanted to convey my thinking about the topic by putting it here in Conspiracy Theories. Jack Cashill has a pretty long article in the American Thinker today about similarities between Obama's writing and Ayers. Cashill certainly starts...

British journalist David Aaronovitch has a new book out on conspiracy theories called Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History. He covers, amongst other CTs, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Pearl Harbor, JFK and of course 9/11 and 7/7. Excerpt from The...

Does this make anyone else angry? Listening to a mother spoonfeed her daugther at least 80% of a speech she "supposedly" wrote herself. If you look at her info on her profile her mother is apparantly a diehard conspiracy theorist, and using her daughter for propaganda purposes. It really is...

One of Alex Jones' clones apparently put it together; it's mostly argument by assertion. For example: Translation: You only debunked 57 of my 58 points and therefor I can continue to use all 58. This seems to be part of a trend of rebunking debunking; see also this 9-11 Troofer blog.

Back in the 1930s, the German government commissioned a homoeopath called Fritz Donner to conduct rigorous research into homoeopathy. As mentioned by Edzard Ernst in 2007, and in one of Randi's commentaries in 2001, the results were entirely negative, and the report was never published. At...

On another message board, I found a post with a link to 9/11blogger which excoriates certain obvious whackadoodles within the movement, including Dr Judy and her gang and Sophia Shafquat. Basicly, thev blogger was complaining about being tarred with a brush that these and other notable...

This has to take the cake for the silliest bit of "evidence" offered up by the Troofers yet: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRGKgrWAw1Q&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed...

Ex-Army scientist to get $5.8M in anthrax lawsuit Hatfill was framed by the Mossad http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggnSVGuQvX23iSN9fCYgtmUMsaBAD91IPT580

Hello all. I'm inquiring about the charge CTers use about the hijackers being alive. What's the thinking behind this theory? Can anyone link anything that would debunk this?

Many people on this forum are clearly hostile to "Zeitgeist the movie". I'm curious about the knee-jerk hostility to this video. I'm an atheist, and I found nothing odd or controversial about it's debunking of Christianity. I've read any number of things along the same lines as the assertions...

In watching the burden-of-proof table tennis that passes for debate between our resident crop of CTists and the debunkers, it struck me that the CTists almost never cite any conspiracy theory literature, whether about 9/11 or anything else. Why? Is it because the YouTube generation are...

This is from a blog devoted to general woo woo mocking I found the other day. Not all the CTs are sourced but these are a few of my favorites.

I have a question for everyone who is interested in these things. I'm intrigued by something Michael Shermer wrote (I believe it's from his book Why People Believe Weird Things but I didn't check): http://skeptically.org/logicalthreads/id15.html Gender and Belief. In many ways the...