Your Most Annoying Conspiracy Theories?

[Experiencer7]

Originally Posted by hopeful skeptic

I was polishing my magic wand today (no jokes, please) and imagining what it might be like if I could wave it about and erase the most annoying conspiracy theories out there. By "annoying," I mean those theories that no amount of reasoned examination, contrary evidence or implacable logic can dissipate.

I have a couple that come immediately to mind:

1. The 9/11 "truth" [sic] movement. No matter how much direct, unquestionable evidence and hard logic one hurls at its proponents, this rather lucrative and ratings-garnering blather just won't go away. Poor Alex Jones - this dead horse is his only ride.

2. The "Secret Government." Whether suppressing the "truth" about free-energy, UFOs, the moon landings, mass alien abductions, the War on Terror, 9/11, peak oil, water depletion, solid-fuel automobiles, the JFK/RFK/MLK murders, the Masons, etc., these nefarious minions of the Dark Side have moved about the planet in their black helicopters and dark suits, pulling hidden levers and pressing unseen buttons for centuries - all without leaving a shred of evidence anywhere behind them. Puh-leeze.

Face it: our governments are clumsy, oafish and incompetent. And they have nukes.

3. The so-called "Moon Landing Hoax." Reasonable rebuttal of this nonsense should have nailed this conspiracy into its coffin long ago, but it keeps clawing its way out of the grave, no matter how much logic, direct evidence and science you throw at it. Spooky, really.

Yours?

You failed to mention the flat earth flatheads.

[Anubis]

Originally Posted by xperiancer7

You failed to mention the flat earth flatheads.

I forgot about them... They are even more annoying than the tinfoil-hat wearing Illuminati nutters.

[SoCalGNX]

[quote=auntiegrav;2480]In the spirit of Christmas, Christianity has got to be on the top of my list. The idea that some unseen entity has conspired to not only control people, but to bury dinosaur bones and flood the entire planet, then become mortal, then immortal, while millions were living in the Americas, just waiting for Manifest Infection to kill them 'In His Name'... The bigger the lie........etc.

This would be an incorrect notion....Christianity is actually a pyramid marketing scheme.

[pixelsmith]

I forgot about them... They are even more annoying than the tinfoil-hat wearing Illuminati nutters.

i hate assholes who sling the tinfoil hat term around.

[Irishseekers]

Originally Posted by pixelsmith

i hate assholes who sling the tinfoil hat term around.

Every conspiracy annoys me guys sorry! Whoops sorry the J.F.k conspiracy maybe, i kind of think it was the Mob who killed him .They were pissed of about alot of stuff that j.f.K done. Anyway all theories no facts. A pity do, i wish i did have the answers. I consider myself to be sherlock holmes sometimes, Not.

[Anubis]

Originally Posted by pixelsmith

i hate assholes who sling the tinfoil hat term around.

Is that because you wear one?

[SoCalGNX]

Originally Posted by pixelsmith

i hate assholes who sling the tinfoil hat term around.

Long before the movie "Signs" (i think that was the name of persona non grata Gibsons movie), aluminum hats were an "Arizona" thing. Long before. I once lived in a small town in central AZ. Because funding for mental health services was pretty much non-existant, at least of the local cops carried a roll of foil in his trunk. He had occasion to pass out sheets of it for hat making to various members of the community. This would calm them when nothing else would.
So don't be so quick to condemn people who talk about these hats.

[thetruthisoutthere]

I am actually a believer in most of the conspiracy theories listed in the first post. The only one I can think that annoys me ( I don't know if it could be technically called a conspiracy theory) is the idea of religion. In our societies history religion has never been responsible for anything good in fact you could say just the reverse that religion as been responsible for most of the foul ups in history ( the crusades, the dark ages, the inquisition, child molestation, misuse of money) just to name a few. So I guess you could say that organized religion no matter the denomination or creed annoys me and I wish it would just go away.