Do Conspirisy theories have any Truth to them?

[Dazaster]

Conspiracy believers never cease to amaze me. Many of them seem to be purported by piple who kant tipe proply, even spelling the same word wrong twice in a single sentence, having never learned or event learnt to spellcheck. No wonder your government wants to control you. Conspiracies are good for one thing: getting people to leave you alone in a bar. To sum up, when dealing with conspiracies, always remember : THERE IS NO SPOON.

[Vindekarr]

Conspiracy believers never cease to amaze me. Many of them seem to be purported by piple who kant tipe proply, even spelling the same word wrong twice in a single sentence, having never learned or event learnt to spellcheck. No wonder your government wants to control you. Conspiracies are good for one thing: getting people to leave you alone in a bar. To sum up, when dealing with conspiracies, always remember : THERE IS NO SPOON.

 

I've sort of stopped paying attention to them. Most aren't even worth considering in a logical sense.

[phoneyLogic]

Conspiracy believers never cease to amaze me.

 

And I probably wont get, why some people just outright deny "conspriracies" at all, even though, there has been several in history. This is just a fact.

An actual "conspiracy" is not equal to a "conspiracy theory".

 

 

Many of them seem to be purported by piple who kant tipe proply, even spelling the same word wrong twice in a single sentence, having never learned or event learnt to spellcheck. No wonder your government wants to control you.

 

Is this a fact or is this just another awkward theory?

Let me guess, you're a believer, my friend. Because typing things wrong doesn't neccesarily makes a theory wrong. ;-)

This would be a false premise or informal fallacy.

Edited September 4, 2012 by tortured Tomato

[mizdarby]

Very occasionally a conspiracy theory does prove to be right, which adds longivity to those conspiracy theories which we simply don't know are right or wrong.

The 1968 Nixon/Humphrey Presidential race is one example of a true conspiracy theory. Not only was it proved that Nixon did indeed bug the Democrats, but it was also proved that the Nixon delibretely sabotaged the then ongoing peace talks, between the North and South Vietnamese, because Humphrey had called for a ceasation of bombing in Vietnam a week prior to the elections, and was rapidly overtaking Nixon in the polls. By sabotaging the peace talks, Nixon held on for a narrow victory. As Johnson would later point out, this is technically treason, since it means Nixon directly sabotaged the interests of the United States for his own personal gain.

Thats why I may find conspiracy theories on the whole, rather laughable, but in the back of my mind realise at least one or two of them, may well have a basis in actual truth.

[JimboUK]

Very occasionally a conspiracy theory does prove to be right, which adds longivity to those conspiracy theories which we simply don't know are right or wrong.

The 1968 Nixon/Humphrey Presidential race is one example of a true conspiracy theory. Not only was it proved that Nixon did indeed bug the Democrats, but it was also proved that the Nixon delibretely sabotaged the then ongoing peace talks, between the North and South Vietnamese, because Humphrey had called for a ceasation of bombing in Vietnam a week prior to the elections, and was rapidly overtaking Nixon in the polls. By sabotaging the peace talks, Nixon held on for a narrow victory. As Johnson would later point out, this is technically treason, since it means Nixon directly sabotaged the interests of the United States for his own personal gain.

Thats why I may find conspiracy theories on the whole, rather laughable, but in the back of my mind realise at least one or two of them, may well have a basis in actual truth.

 

Nixon is a great example of a real conspiracy , you don't get to be the leader of a country without being slightly power mad, there was a clear motive and the act itself required only a few people to be in the know. Compare what actually happened with Nixon to the stuff some people post on Youtube, they post stuff requiring the silence of thousands, stuff with no clear motive, nonsense where the risk far outweighs the rewards and theories that defy science. Apply common sense to these theories and they fall apart.

[Ghogiel]

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There are a lot of real conspiracies...

 

however there are more about alien lizards and time travelling magic wizards out to mind control you into buying more twinkies. And even if there was some truth to these things, like I don't know, there are groups of people who actively try to make war in a certain country in the middle east so as to fullfil some zaney prophecy supernatural juju... sure there are people probably trying to do just that, conspiring to start a war and convince other people through propaganda and lies to support them while they do it, but they aren't holy warriors working with a magic sky man, they are just delusional and their prophecy is hokey nonsense.