Spin-off thread: Your Favorite Conspiracy Theories

I believe none that have been mentioned. I'm an evidence-based analyst, not a "what if"-type deducer.

The most fascinating is the Kennedy assassination. There is no end to the theories, and being shot down for decades doesn't keep most of them from still being believed by people. It is fun to analyze and it easy to puncture most of the theories. 50 years of investigations have concluded that the Warren Commission pretty much got it right. There are still mysteries and the FBI and Secret Service have done some serious coverup, evidence mishandling, and disinformation that suggest that some secrets have been suppressed. Probably huge negligence on both their parts. Oswald was a well-known kook and on all their radars yet nobody acted. But it really was one lone nut that shot Kennedy.

The Titanic hit an iceberg because her captain was going too fast for the conditions in a reported iceberg area. Pilot error.

Roswell was a top-secret air force reconnaissance project. Half of what we hear was deliberate disinformation, but it has finally all come out officially. We promoted UFOs in the 1950 and had a special office to investigate them to give the idea some authority. But it was a convenient way to distract the public when top secret aircraft and missile tests were observed. In a way it was a conspiracy by the government, but not to hide the existence of aliens. It was to hide top secret military and CIA projects.

Freemasons and their ilk can be very influential, but they have never come close to ruling the world. Like all kook religions, their appeal is limited.

Pearl Harbor was a preemptive strike by Japan. It is their signature way of starting a war. Everybody had been expecting a war with Japan for a couple of years, but we expected it in the Philippines or Guam. Pearl Harbor was pretty ballsy of them and a huge tactical success. Of course it was also a colossal strategic blunder. Everybody knew war was coming, but we didn't know where. It was a failure, pure and simple, but no conspiracy. Since then the US has been obsessed with intelligence gathering.

 

No. But there is a complete lack of evidence for their existence until there is. The distances are so vast and the technical problems of interstellar travel so overwhelming, that it is unlikely that planetary civilizations will ever interact. Even radio has a limit to its range and its senders would be long dead before a message could be returned...if they were even looking for one.

And assuming that some advanced civilization has overcome the near-impossible and have noticed us. Well then the logical problems begin. Why would they fuck with us for a couple of centuries hiding among us in wildly varying disguises instead of just saying, "We're from Vulcan, take us to your leader". Why would the advanced beings abduct farmers who return talking of anal probes? Perhaps they have been abducted by gay truckers instead.

Waiting on the evidence, amigo.

 

A long-held myth based on the speculation of an early reporter and much-repeated by subsequent authors who never actually checked it out. But fuel is relative easy to transport and store. We had lots more oil parked elsewhere in the Pacific and on the West coast and lots of tankers and oilers. It would have hampered only the ships based on Oahu and only for a couple of weeks. And those ships can be redeployed elsewhere and were bound to in a shooting war. It would have been a mistake for the Japanese to leave expensive ships afloat that take years to build and instead take out a single tank farm that can be rebuilt and refilled cheaply and quickly.

There are some pretty good books that dissect many of the tales of Pearl Harbor and sort out the unsubstantiated.

THIS is probably the best one.

 

Since you offer no evidence, why don't you tell us what you think. Then I will evaluate it.