Do you know any examples of a conspiracy theorist coming to their senses?

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A previous thread about von Daniken;

Ancient astronaut believers: Are they racist?

I had a conversation today where the other party was feeling a little guilty about going off on a rampage at a casual question. The person asked what he thought about ancient astronauts and he told her that people who forward those hypotheses or believe in them really pisses him off because they are saying, in effect, brown people couldn’t have built/done those things back then so it must have been extraterrestrials doing it for them. He apologized to the questioner but, being Mexican, she sai…

Although believers in the Ancient Astronaut mythos may not be racist themselves, it seems that von Daniken was (or maybe still is, since he is still alive).