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- US government poisoning alcohol during prohibition - US government using dead baby body parts for radiation testing without consent of the parents - U

- US government poisoning alcohol during prohibition - US government using dead baby body parts for radiation testing without consent of the parents - US government giving Black people syphilis on purpose - Operation paperclip - US intel's heart attack gun - Operation Mockingbird (CIA infiltrating media) - US Air Force experimenting with pheromones as a weapon - CIA funded Dalai Lama and related guerrilla forces - polio vaccine spread a cancer-causing virus - Operation Northwoods (US intelligence planned to stage a false flag operation in the USA and blame Cuban terrorists) - Tobacco companies knew cigarette smoke was deadly - FBI spying on John Lennon, Martin Luther King Junior, et al - The entire US/Vietnam war, predicated on a golf of Tonkin "incident", which never happened - Iran-Contras - MK ULTRA - PRISM (Snowden) - weapons of mass destruction - 9/11 having nothing to do with Iraq invasion - Panama papers - Vaccine passports - Agenda 21/2030 Honestly, the list goes on for so long that you would fill your disk with text before you exhausted it. With this knowledge, you have to be woefully illogical to come to the blanket conclusion that "conspiracy theories" are just some form of ridiculous religion. There are people who believe things that are totally ridiculous and unrealistic. There are idiots in all walks of life, but using those idiots to attempt to dismiss everything that you deem to be a "conspiracy theory" is as ridiculous as dismissing all comedians as "misogynistic racists" just because one comedian tells racist and misogynist jokes.

mathematically 5y ago
The article isn't dismissing conspiracy theories. The article is suggesting that conspiracy theories should be taken seriously and analyzed like religions because most conspiracy theories are very similar to monotheistic religions.
- gonational 5y ago
  Except that theories rooted in facts, with evidence, and a track record of successful predictions, has nothing to do with mythology.
  - mathematically 5y ago
    Do you have an example?
    - gonational 5y ago
      How about the 30 or so that I listed in my original comment above… read much?
      - mathematically 5y ago
        Do you have links to long form essays and analysis about why those conspiracy theories were any different from all the other ones? Similarly, what are current conspiracy theories that are more than just conspiracy theories and are backed by actual evidence?
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User23 5y ago
> - Operation paperclip It's a minor nit to pick in the scheme of things, but Dr. Schumann's wife was my tutor and he told me all about it after lessons. He was vehement that it was not and never was Operation Paperclip, but rather Action Paperclip. Knowing that makes me wonder how many other little historical details are wrong. Once an erroneous source gets into the literature, it can take a long time, if ever, before it gets corrected. For example the incorrect charge value for the electron persisted for a long time[1] and that at least can be tested in the laboratory, unlike the specifics of the exfiltration of German scientists. [1] https://scipython.com/blog/measurements-of-the-electron-charge-over-time/ https://scipython.com/blog/measurements-of-the-electron-char...
- gonational 5y ago
  Oh, that is interesting. There are some interesting historical name stories; such as "World War", which wasn't really in use until decades after the first world war.

mathematically 5y ago

The article isn't dismissing conspiracy theories. The article is suggesting that conspiracy theories should be taken seriously and analyzed like religions because most conspiracy theories are very similar to monotheistic religions.

gonational 5y ago
Except that theories rooted in facts, with evidence, and a track record of successful predictions, has nothing to do with mythology.
- mathematically 5y ago
  Do you have an example?
  - gonational 5y ago
    How about the 30 or so that I listed in my original comment above… read much?
    - mathematically 5y ago
      Do you have links to long form essays and analysis about why those conspiracy theories were any different from all the other ones? Similarly, what are current conspiracy theories that are more than just conspiracy theories and are backed by actual evidence?

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User23 5y ago

> - Operation paperclip It's a minor nit to pick in the scheme of things, but Dr. Schumann's wife was my tutor and he told me all about it after lessons. He was vehement that it was not and never was Operation Paperclip, but rather Action Paperclip. Knowing that makes me wonder how many other little historical details are wrong. Once an erroneous source gets into the literature, it can take a long time, if ever, before it gets corrected. For example the incorrect charge value for the electron persisted for a long time[1] and that at least can be tested in the laboratory, unlike the specifics of the exfiltration of German scientists. [1] https://scipython.com/blog/measurements-of-the-electron-charge-over-time/ https://scipython.com/blog/measurements-of-the-electron-char...

gonational 5y ago
Oh, that is interesting. There are some interesting historical name stories; such as "World War", which wasn't really in use until decades after the first world war.