My all time favorite is conspiracy theory is that the positions and angles of street inspection stickers on the backs of road signs are secretly driving directi

My all time favorite is conspiracy theory is that the positions and angles of street inspection stickers on the backs of road signs are secretly driving directions to concentration camps for foreign UN soldiers to take people to. I've known plenty of conspiracy theorists, on both sides of the political spectrum - black helicopters, chemtrails, faked moon landings, flat-earthers, NSA-records-your-phone calls-and-emails, white people were bred on an island by a professor named Jacob and are inherently evil as a result of the process, US government did OKC, US government did 9/11, Mossad did 9/11, JFK... But I don't think the defining characteristic of these "believers" is not belief, but rather unbelief - a feeling that someone is lying to them. A lot of times they'll argue in the same evening for mutually contradictory conspiracy theories. Or will happily switch to a different theories about the moon landing as soon as I show some evidence against their first one. It's not at all about any one particular theory being true. In end, perhaps it's a good thing to have a some percentage of the population be disposed to a little skepticism about those in power.