The Stupidest Conspiracy Theories Of All Time

OJ Simpson was framed for murder because he starred in a move that proved the moon landing was fake. Movie:

He is indeed an asshole. Also a convicted felon and current guest of the federal prison system. And it’s not the first time he’s been locked up.

He’s not just an asshole, he’s a one-man crime wave.

Yeah, I forgot this one. You may have a winner here.

This reminds me of the chemtrail one, in that it’s like both sets of people seem not to have noticed this stuff when they were kids.

(It wouldn’t really help to point that out, they would just say that the manipulation/experimentation/whatever had been going on longer than they thought. )

You have all the Mitchell and Webb humor videos explaining the moon landing (cover for the actual Mars landing) and Princess Di death. That Mitchell and Webb Look - Moon Landing Sketch - YouTube for starters.

A friend of my wife has a new one on me. Something about the how the slaves didn’t come from Africa, but were the Moors from southern Europe. And more about how they somehow actually discovered and populated the Americas and further into reparations and the question currently at the Hague World Court which will change everything. I zoned out at the latest rant and can’t even search for something this weird.

The 2015 summer military training maneuvers called Jade Helms 15. Texas governor called up Texas Guard to keep an eye on The US military. A Tex congressperson, Gohmert and Tex, foreign born senator, Raphael Cruz both warned America that they were watching. Even Chuck Norris warned The US.

They thought Obama was going to declare Marshall Law, take their guns, cancel Friday high school football, make them drink only low alcohol content beer and make them all into Muslims. Then cancel the 2016 elections.

But Texas stood firm.

the sad thing is that Celtics player Kyrie Irving still beiieves it in 2018!

The best cure for “situation depression” is to stay in the same situation and take anti-depressants!

I’ve been told that all mental illness is caused by living clean and sober, that no pill that fights mental illness ever has any bad side effects, and that all pills used to fight mental illness are 100% effective. Any bad side effects from mental illness medications are psychological and invalid.

I think it was actually the Moops. No pie for you. :slight_smile:

How about this: the asbestos scare.

I think the belief in hypnotic recovery of repressed memories did more damage than all the rest of these together (except for the witch trials) since it destroyed real families, led to putting innocent people in real prisons, etc. One of the foremost proponents of the theory is professor of psychology who has built their whole career about this wacky idea and been celebrated and won awards for it.

I don’t understand what you mean. Mesothelioma as a result of chronic asbestos exposure accounted for nearly 3,000 deaths per year in the US from 1999-2015, per this paper from the CDC: Malignant Mesothelioma Mortality—1999-2015. In the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 3, 2017.

Overblown for most people worried about a stray fiber on the wind, sure. (Versus say, working in a shipyard cladding pipes with the crap, or at Johns Manville for 30 years) But I thought it was fairly well proven that asbestos has killed a whole lot of people.

That was clearly a misprint. It is the Moors.

Well, this one that What Exit? explains (not ascribes to) is pretty stupid.

Some of the “black helicopters are coming for you to install a new world order” crowd sent links to me ( eh…flooded my email inbox with stupid forwards ) about how the US dollar was going away to be replaced by the US-Mexico ‘Amero’.

Are those still going around? Those kicked off back during Bush Sr.'s administration almost 30 years ago.

The Moors can’t have landed their ships in America. Everyone knows the Moor landing was faked.

There’s a new(ish) dam near my house whose construction was opposed by Basque separatists who suddenly decided to Go Green. One of their claims is that any seismic activity detected in the area is caused by the dam.

Forget about seismologists, Italy, what y’all have to do is stop building waterworks!

The guy I bought the house from mentioned his belief in that notion; I burst out “that’s untrue” and, since I’d already started, explained about the Iberian Peninsula being a really small tectonic plate that’s kind of squeezed between Europe and Africa and that you can see that in any map of tectonic plates. To his credit, he decided to check the information.

Note that diagnostic criteria has shifted in that same period; many people who under the old criteria were considered to have had a different type of cancer actually had mesothelioma, so between that and those who never got a diagnosis the actual numbers are higher (how much higher is what I don’t know).

I had an… anti-worker in Sweden that I found extremely frustrating: he made Franco right!
You see, one of el Generalísimo’s obsessions, his favorite whipping horse, was the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. It was the root of all evil, the source of all incompetence; anything that went awry with a plan was due to Judeo-Masonic interference.
The Swedish guy kept hiring and re-hiring a completely anti-useful moron, wasting the company’s money and the time and effort of every human being involved with whatever project the moron was part of. The reason? They were capital-B Brothers :smack: (no Jews were in evidence but I’m sure we could have found a few somewhere).

Well, the Moops faked the Moor landing to hide their own (probably nefarious) activities.

My own conspiracy theory is that all this modern hand held technology comes from an alien race, is turning people’s brains to mush, and the aliens are going to come back, take away all the technology, and turn you people into their slaves.

And what are James Brolin and Sam Waterston? Chopped liver?

And no one has ever heard from Peter Hymans again!

Wait, you say he directed 2010? About non-faked trips to Jupiter?

It all fits! Somehow.

Just Asking Questions here.

This thread was just made for you, wasn’t it? :smiley: