Conspiracy Theory Poker - I'll See Yours And Raise This One.

[mongers]

Thread rule, post a wacky conspiracy theory you've come across and the next poster has to 'top' that with something more bizarre.

Never heard of this before, until I found out about it yesterday, I give you, the Chemtrail conspiracy theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some trails left by aircraft are actually chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for a purpose undisclosed to the general public in clandestine programs directed by government officials.[1]

http://aircrap.org/world-chemtrail-awareness-day-january-22-2011/33385/

Seems some scientologists are into this as well:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/jun/23/chemtrailsbeckisbackbutis

[Slargos]

Do we have to have come across them, or can they be of our own devicing? 

[mongers]

Do we have to have come across them, or can they be of our own devicing? 

You win, thread locked.

[Razgovory]

British government released giant maneating badgers to devour Iraqis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6295138.stm

[Slargos]

Do we have to have come across them, or can they be of our own devicing? 

You win, thread locked.

But you haven't even read my manifesto. 

[JonasSalk]

Chemtrails are real. They dramatically increase the number of people who think they are chemtrails.

[Josquius]

The chemtrail one is pretty established. I've a friend believes it.

[CountDeMoney]

Do we have to have come across them, or can they be of our own devicing? 

You win, thread locked.

But you haven't even read my manifesto. 

We read it. Every fucking day.

[Ideologue]

Those people who think aspartame kills you.  Why aren't I dead, dudes?

I mean, I've got my problems, but if aspartame is as poisonous as some people think I'm betting 12-20 diet sodas a day for ten years probably would leave a more marked effect than a caffeine addiction.

[Razgovory]

I think that one comes from a misunderstanding that it works as a bug poison, apparently stemming from a Hoax (something I came across while looking for ways to kill ants).

I don't know if your tops man eating badgers, but I'll do a better one.  The Queen of England (along with many other people), are blood drinking lizard people from another dimension.  And yes, people actually believe that.  They are centered around David Icke, who as far as I can tell is having severe delusions.

I know of a lot of these.  I know of some really, really weird ones.

[Viking]

Those people who think aspartame kills you.  Why aren't I dead, dudes?

I mean, I've got my problems, but if aspartame is as poisonous as some people think I'm betting 12-20 diet sodas a day for ten years probably would leave a more marked effect than a caffeine addiction.

http://www.yrad.com/cs/

This is the conspiracy theory podcast which is a weekly (usually) podcast that has one guest with which the host discusses a conspiracy theory. Pretty good.

[Ideologue]

I think that one comes from a misunderstanding that it works as a bug poison, apparently stemming from a Hoax (something I came across while looking for ways to kill ants).

The really cool thing would be is, if it's true, I'd be the one to prove it, and I'd have a massive lawsuit on my hands.

I came across it because something (probably different somethings) in Pepsi Ones and Coke Zeroes does, in fact, make me kind of sick.

I don't know if your tops man eating badgers, but I'll do a better one.  The Queen of England (along with many other people), are blood drinking lizard people from another dimension.  And yes, people actually believe that.  They are centered around David Icke, who as far as I can tell is having severe delusions.

I know of a lot of these.  I know of some really, really weird ones.

I'm familiar with the Lizard People stuff from old.  It's like someone realized that anti-Semitism was bad, Jews were just regular folks, and shit like the Holocaust (assuming you don't deny it happened) sort of stands as irrefutable evidence that Jews haven't historically control anything well enough to keep six million of them from being killed, but they still needed a shadowy conspiracy of inhuman monsters to justify their crap lives and paranoia.  And then some of them forgot the point of the whole exercise, and just started saying Jews are reptile people.

If they really did just want to drink human blood, I'm pretty sure it would be preposterously easier to just buy it than control a shitty planet like Earth.  I have the same complaint about vampires.

[jimmy olsen]

Those people who think aspartame kills you.  Why aren't I dead, dudes?

I mean, I've got my problems, but if aspartame is as poisonous as some people think I'm betting 12-20 diet sodas a day for ten years probably would leave a more marked effect than a caffeine addiction.

Dude, do you have any fucking teeth left?

[Zeus]

One of the more famous ones (In America) would have to be McCarthyism.

[The Brain]

One of the more famous ones (In America) would have to be McCarthyism.

It did actually exist you know.