Top Ten Conspiracy Theories

#7 - Roswell
#4 - Moon landings

Rest inappropriate to this forum, though it wasn't at all surprising to find 9/11 at #1.

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I think the best of all the CT's doesn't normally get a run...

If I wanted to be able to do whatever I wanted & not get caught out by the general population, what I'd do is set up someone to come up with some obviously ridiculous theories about almost anything, make a big fuss about how silly it is & how nutty the people are & plant a nice big label on them.

Then, any time someone found out what I was doing & tried to alert the world on it, I could simply label them with that nice big label & have almost everyone ignore them.

Then i could literally get away with anything because anyone who tries to accuse me of what I am really doing would be ridiculed & disbelieved by the mainstream.

Not advocating any particular CT here, just pointing out it's a nice way to ensure freedom from rational scrutiny

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Not sure what that means in 'Murican English, but if it means CTs aren't given a fair opportunity, then I disagree. They get a very fair chance to expound on their theories here. The only catch is they must provide objective, verified evidence and rational arguments to back their claims.
Analysing what CTs, etc., claim has nothing to do with labels. The only requirement is that they provide objective evidence and rational arguments to back their claims.Might work in the public press and especially the tabloids, but it's non-operative here on the BAUT.Might work in the public press and especially the tabloids, but it's non-operative here on the BAUT.Might work in the public press and especially the tabloids, but it's non-operative here on the BAUT.

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Ah, but you seem to have missed the point - that first bit that you didn't understand... ' I think the best of all the CT's doesn't normally get a run...' means that I think there is one CT (the best one) doesn't get mentioned.

Now please re-read...

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I see it Acolyte.

But it would never appear on a list of CT's. Due to the list being part of that greater CT.

Satan: "I didn't fall, i was pushed!"

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There is no light in space. - Moon Man

*grins* And it's the best one of them all. Trying to prove it automatically places one in the list of those not to be accepted as rational. Anyone evoking the 'you are a CT' label adds to the strength of the over-riding CT.

And any putative group behind things has the perfect cover - we accuse ourselves of being nutty & they don't need to lift a finger any more. If the 'theory' doesn't have peer review it is plainly wrong & the product of a 'strange' person so we shun them.

And it can't get peer review because it's obviously the product of a strange mind & doesn't have peer review to show how reasonable it is.

So the public 'edits' what they can know & any putative shadow group stays comfortably behind the scenes & those on the outside say 'surely there'd be someone from the inside who would come forward? And those on the inside who might 'come forward' stay well away from the spotlight because they don't want to be labelled CT's.

Religion taught well how to control a population. The many can only be controlled by the few if the many control themselves.

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Ooh, Paul is Dead is on #5. That's nice. I'm glad it didn't beat the moon landings conspiracy theory, though. That would've kind of hurt my ego a lot.

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Once again, I see that SQuiRREL (Society to Quiet Research into Rodent Extraterrestrial Lepus) is still actively covering up the existence of space bunnies.

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No need to. Wasn't familiar with that one phrase (defined it per context), but the alluded subject was obvious.

But the BAUT rules are the BAUT rules. Rather than being specific, I generalised re your post's content.

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Please make your point more clearer and conciser.

Thanks,

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I suspect that mentioning that particular conspiracy theory might get this thread locked, as it might not be astronomy related. I already felt uncomfortable mentioning the Paul is Dead conspiracy, because it's not quite astronomy related.

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Of course it is. I mean Paul McCarthy is a huge STAR!

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Well, about the 9/11 there are some doubts about the true author...not saying that the US goverment was involved, is just that they didnt know who did the attack, so they blamed Al queda, at first Al queda denied any link with the WWC attack, later they "accept" the responsability....more/less the same as in the Butto murder -in which everybody knows that was done by the military-, seems that today every single "terrorist" attack is done by Al queda.......i dont buy it

That's nice. Go to a board where it isn't expressly against the rules to discuss it.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

My cat's favorite conspiracy theory is the recent Albanian blackout, allegedly (she emphasizes) caused by a cat chasing a mouse. Allegedly (Trixie emphasizes) authorities took photos [of the alleged cat and mouse electrocuted carcasses] to "prove" it was a cat chasing a mouse.

Trixie disputes this, saying it was a DOG chasing the mouse;...that cats are once again being villified in the media.

Paranoid 9/11 theories are verboten here unless you can tie them into astronomy.

Good luck with that.

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Hmmm. . .
Alien's, who we all know love pyramids, especially ones with giant eyes on the top, flew into the distasteful buildings in an effort to eliminate them. It succeeded. Most reports say it was 747's that flew into the buildings. This is because 747's are in fact alien spacecraft. The first reported 747 was flown in 1969, the same year as the moon landing. Coincidence? I think not. It impossible to imagine such a wondrous achievement flying with computer technology of the era, when a computer simulation requires at least 256 megabytes of RAM. Boeing is part of a vast conspiracy to cover this up, and anyone who has flown on a 747 is part of this conspiracy. Airforce One is in fact the mothership, proof that our dear president is in fact a shape shifting lizard. One only has to hear his attempts at understandingment of the English language to see for oneself the truth of these claims.
To sum up, Pyramid Loving aliens flew 747 spacecraft into the Twin Towers out of aesthetic outrage. Prove me wrong!

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All pyramid loving aliens wear sombreros. A Boeing aircraft's owners guide clearly state that their aircraft should be operated only by sphere loving aliens, never pyramid lovers, as sombreros wont fit in the cockpit. This means that all UFO sighting are, in fact, pyramid loving aliens getting booted out by sphere-loving-alien piloted Boeings. Coincidentally, their spilled drinks freeze in the upper atmosphere creating chemtrails which intoxicate all who breathe the maraschino cherry vapor. The real clincher is that, no bearded loner scientists were found at the WTC aftermath dazedly proclaiming "the fools...I tried to warn them", just scores of lab tech muttering incoherently about Martian grasshoppers in the London Underground.

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But what of the children, will no one think of the children?!!?!??!!!!!!!!!!!!111111one

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