# Your favorite crackpot theory **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589 "2002-03-22T19:45:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![trishdish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@trishdish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trishdish)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/41 "2002-03-27T17:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\*I heard about a book that claims that the fast food industry is responsible for: > > [ul] [a] Americans being obese. > \*\* The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. > [c] Globalization.[/ul] > > Obviously this is a conspiracy between McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell and others too numerous to mention and we are all the victims. \*\* And that book would be [Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060938455/qid=1017251495/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/103-0445426-2433460) ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/42 "2002-03-27T20:39:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*What I love about conspiracy nuts is, they NEVER concede they were wrong, even when evidence proves it- they simply make the new facts fit the old theory. Oh, they may have to twist and turn the old theory to make the new facts fit, but they’ll never acknowledge that their initial theory was ridiculous. \*\* That’s also why I love anti-conspiracy nuts. They NEVER conced they were wrong, even when evidence proves it- the best you can hope for is that the conspiracy is actually made public and the conspirators admit it and then they’ll just never want to talk about it or say they _secretly_ knew something was going on. ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/43 "2002-03-27T22:54:29Z")
This one’s always sort of tickled my fancy. [http://www.williamhenry.net/H-Bomb.htm](http://www.williamhenry.net/H-Bomb.htm) The Holy Grail, the H-Bomb, aliens, and Egyptian gods. How can you lose? ---
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/44 "2002-03-28T14:45:04Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the “Great Phi Theory” yet. Search GD for Phi and the user Hiryuu, you will be entertained for hours. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/45 "2002-03-28T19:20:43Z")
Bill and Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster killed. Actually, I believe that, but then, I’m a crackpot, after all. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/46 "2002-03-28T20:09:08Z")
I was going to mention “Time Cube,” but Mr. Miskatonic beat me to it. Then I was pointed to the bizarreness that is Doug Moon. Wow. It’s just as incoherent as Time Cube, but with better grammar. :eek: RR ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/47 "2002-03-28T20:28:07Z")
The pole shift. Apparently, on May 5, 2000 the planets were supposed to line up, causing the Earth’s axis to shift, which would somehow cause tectonic reactions, inundating whole continents and setting off volcanoes and earthquakes all around the world, causing all of civilization to be sent back to the Stone Age. Funny I don’t seem to remember that. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/48 "2002-03-28T20:34:03Z")
Can’t forget the May 5, 2000 planetary alignment that guys like Art Bell were convinced was going to destroy the planet. These theories weren’t very prominent to begin with, now they’re all but forgotten. Using your logic, astorian, they’re probably just waiting for the next forecast alignment, at which point the predictions begin anew… _D’oh… Palve beat me to it!_ 😛 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > **Obviously, in the weeks and months before January 1, 2000, crackpots spread loads of sinister, scary theories about what was going to happen when Y2K struck. As it turned out, virtually NOTHING happened, anywhere in the world.** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/49 "2002-03-28T23:01:37Z")
I like Atlantis theories. I don’t believe it’s real, I think Homer made it up to show how reckless ambition and meaningless materialism can destroy. After all, Homer was a poet. He was supposed to make up stories to make a point. I wanted to think of something more lowbrow, but I couldn’t. I kind of like the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald meant to shoot Connally. Oh wait, Area 51! There are no aliens there, it’s just a testing ground for classified aircraft. I really believe that. The aliens were made up to cover up the real reason. And it really was a weather balloon. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/50 "2002-03-29T07:51:21Z")
For the most far-out linguistic crackpot theories you could ever want to read, [look no further](http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/homepage.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Cull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@Cull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cull)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/51 "2002-03-29T08:41:26Z")
Scientology. ---
**Author:** ![heptapod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@heptapod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heptapod)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589/52 "2002-03-29T08:58:07Z")
I like cold fusion theories. I’m damned certain they have it right this time around with their sonoluminesence. Also all things about the thylacine. Either the poor beast is still out there in the Australian outback or the thylacine will be cloned from the fetus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-crackpot-theory/99589.md?page=2)