New York Magazine Fifty Years Of Conspiracy Theories

[dianna]

I read a couple of the articles ... exactly what you'd expect from the MSM ... commenting on some of the more idiotic theories ... and the ones with merit ... short and dismissive ...


Celebrating Fifty Years Of Conspiracy Theories


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Link to all articles here:

http://nymag.com/news/features/conspiracy-theories/

Expect to see many more Greatest Hits of Conspiracy Theory compilations as we’re in the month of the 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination. New York Magazine does a decent job with a packed compendium of articles, links below

http://nymag.com/news/features/conspiracy-theories/

Introduction: A Greatest-Hits of Out-There Theories

Oswald Didn’t Kill Kennedy (Alone, Anyway)

Communists Have Been Poisoning Our Water Supply

The NBA Draft Is Fixed

Harry Truman Ordered an Alien Cover-up

The Illuminati Is Our Governing Body

Gangster Rap Was a Favor to the Prison Industry

The Lockerbie Bombing Was Not a Bombing

9/11 Was an Inside Job

“They” Killed Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm X, and…

TWA Flight 800 Was Hit by a Missile

The Government Is Planning to Seize Your Property

Stephen King Killed John Lennon

We Are “Sheeple,” and Our Overlords Lizard Aliens

A Global Government Is Waiting in the Wings

Or Under the Denver Airport

Time Travel Is Possible

Recessions Are Created by the Federal Reserve

Bill Clinton Killed 50 People

The Moon Landing Was a Hoax

Towers Control the World’s Weather

Woodstock Never Happened and Tupac Shakur Is Alive

These Things Really Did Happen

AIDS Is a Bioweapon

Crack Is a Bioweapon

Gentrification Is a Race War

The CIA Can Do Mind Control

The Nazis Came From Middle Earth

The Government Staged These Mass Casualties

All Conspiracy Theories Are Connected

Conspiracy Theory Is a Hoax Gone Wrong

Or a Hoax Gone Right?

The Rupert Murdoch Pie Attack Was an Inside Job

Snapple Is Owned By the KKK

Don’t Trust Tsunamis

The Many Theories of the Book of Revelation

Plus: Alex Jones Speaks!

[Calz]

Problem being that is almost as long as it takes documents classified for national security to be released ... and proven to be truth rather than conspiracy.

[giovonni]

aah... The New Yorker :eyebrows:

though an excellent op cover photo :photo:

[ulli]

It's one way of getting the knowledge out there.
All publicity is good publicity......

[Ellisa]

I don't know why anyone would suggest Woodstock did not happen, but was it even really important enough to have its very own conspiracy theory? I'd need a lot of explanation of this! I remember the time. It was a concert (obviously much glorified/intensified by the passage of time- as things are.) Maybe this is an example of how the dogmas of religions start--- imperfect memory and nostalgia.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Stephen King Killed John Lennon

I've never heard that one lol. Can anyone clarify exactly what that 'theory' is meant to involve?