# A moderately interesting article and quiz on conspiracy theories **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056 "2023-06-24T17:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/21 "2023-06-26T15:12:27Z")
Got them all correct. But as others have said, a few are kinda a grey area. Epstein, and Trumps collusion with Russia. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/22 "2023-06-26T15:21:16Z")
I got them all correct! Plus, yesterday I participated in a brewery fun run. I did the one mile course, while my gf and Kizzy did the 5k. I beat them!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/23 "2023-06-26T15:53:52Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Agreed. I feel the Republicans won those elections legally. But they did so by creating a biased system that favored them. Well, define “legally”. The law said that Florida’s electoral votes should go to whichever candidate’s slate of electors got the most votes in Florida’s presidential elections. That’s not what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Bashorian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bashorian/32/3546_2.png) [@Bashorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bashorian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/24 "2023-06-26T16:13:19Z")
Process of elimination alone will get you the right answer among four choices. Yet a disappointing percentage of people got many of the questions wrong. I suspect that a one-question quiz where you select the four conspiracy theories among all of the answers, right and wrong, would have even more people showing as believing in CTs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/25 "2023-06-26T16:29:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Well, define “legally”. The law said that Florida’s electoral votes should go to whichever candidate’s slate of electors got the most votes in Florida’s presidential elections. That’s not what happened. Yes, but the Constitution says that federal law takes precedence over state laws and that the Supreme Court has the power to interpret laws. Which they did by overruling the Florida law in 2000. Now I will readily agree that the five Justices who voted to do so were abusing their power in a biased and unfair manner to appoint a President that they wanted in office. But what they did was within the letter of the law. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/26 "2023-06-26T16:41:07Z")
Or just have a true-false quiz with all of those as independent choices, without telling you how many of them were actually true. But I note that the article never actually says that the quiz they give on the website is the same format as the survey they were drawing results from. Maybe the survey was just individual true-falses, in which case it’s hardly surprising that most Americans believe at least one of the things they label as conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056/27 "2023-06-27T08:51:21Z")
I’m surprised the JFK and Epstein percentages aren’t higher, I’m hearing plenty of left leaning people believe in both of those as well (the the official story isn’t right). Of course the left wing version of Epstein was “Trump had him killed because of his long time connections with Epstein he wanted covered up” and for JFK “JFK was murdered for wanting to shut down the CIA for good” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-moderately-interesting-article-and-quiz-on-conspiracy-theories/986056.md?page=1)