History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories - Did your favorite make the list?

[MattSh]

As we know, it's only a conspiracy theory until proven true.

From a British source...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/3477148/The-greatest-conspiracy-theories-in-history.html

[meegbear]

1. Here's an interesting one ...

21. Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen - Theorists believe that President Franklin Roosevelt provoked the Japanese attack on the US naval base in Hawaii in December 1942 ....

I was told it happened in 1941!!11! Why did our government LIE to us?????

[rucky]

2. Never heard of HAARP before...

HAARP - More than 200 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, is the Pentagon's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, officially an enormous experiment to heat the ionosphere with radio waves. But conspiracy theorists believe the project is a weapon to bring down aircraft and missiles by lifting sections of the atmosphere, cause earthquakes or even a huge weather modification machine.

-- the truth sounds spookier than the conspiracy theory.

[wildbilln864]

7. So what's the reason....

to heat the ionosphere with radio waves anyway. What is it supposed to accomplish? :shrug:

[rucky]

8. Baked potatoes can cook in seconds?

[wildbilln864]

13. Okay thanks...

so you don't know then. Got it. Anyone else? :shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Mark Begich's brother Nick

has done a lot of research on the HAARP matter.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0964881209/celebritywebsi05/

[Terran]

14. "lifting sections of the atmosphere..."

Wot mean? :shrug:

[arcadian]

18. That's how sarah Palin is cooking her Thanksgiving turkey this season.

MMmmmmm, mmmmmm. I'll have the drumstick with the extra ionized charged particles.

[dipsydoodle]

3. There are some real chestnuts there.

Took me a while to figure you need to click the "next" top right hand corner if anyone else is puzzled.

[liberal N proud]

4. My mother believes that NASA faked the moon walks

[cobalt1999]

5. The good news for folks inclined to get sucked into CT

There isn't a major event that has ever happened where there isn't a conspiracy theory or two. Since events keep happening, there is a never ending supply of CT. Add in a never ending supply of people without critical thinking skills and the rest of us are guaranteed entertainment for the foreseeable future.

I would have included all the Evolution "conspiracies" that ID and Creationists claim.

On the other hand, I never heard the Tsunami one, that's good for a chuckle.

[rucky]

6. kick

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. The Consequences of a Claim that Something is True

are Entirely Irrelevant to the Issue or Whether the Claim is True

[cobalt1999]

10. I had to read that 3 times to get it.

You aliens need to be a little clearer in your communications

[Hannah Bell]

12. numbers 9 & 10 are acknowledged on the site to be true, i.e. not "theories" but fact.

[Terran]

15. On what site?

I see no such "acknowledgement". Pearl Harbor I could almost believe, but the Philadelphia Experiment? Not bloody likely.

[Hannah Bell]

16. northwoods,mkultra. 9&10.

"a genuine conspiracy"

"Project MK-ULTRA was brought first to wide public attention in 1975 by Congress and by the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973."

[Terran]

17. Sorry, I looking at image numbers

You're correct.

[depakid]

19. Bacon is Shakespeare! (Stratfordians vs. anti-Stratfordians)

Had a lot of fun with that over the years- plus it's a great excuse to talk literature.