Believers in conspiracy theories are usually written off immediately as weirdos and idiots, but as a new survey by YouGov for Statista reveals, in some cases, these are actually widely-held beliefs and far from the bizarre, fringe opinion that you might have come to expect.
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According to the survey, one of the most commonly believed conspiracy theories among U.S. adults is that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of JFK – 47 percent believe either strongly or somewhat that there was in fact another shooter behind the grassy knoll. President Trump’s oft-touted theory of the “deep state” has also to a fair degree made it into common discourse, with 29 percent believing it to some extent.
Meanwhile, what might be considered as the ‘mother of all conspiracy theories’ – that the 1969 moon landing was faked – seems to have fallen out of favour, with only 11 percent getting behind the idea 50 years on.
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It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s true.
Exactly– As I said to one shallow thinking co-worker one day………
” You know that grocery stores intentionally put sugary cereal on bottom shelves to draw attention of kids…sodas, magazines and candy near the checkout and even design the aisle layout to force people to walk past “sale items” and impulse buys…… yet you don’t believe billionaire bankers meet behind closed doors, in secret, to manipulate the monetary system?”
And they call those of us who recognize the myriad of conspiracies going on as the “nuts.”
Still got the shovel.
Off topic,
but, does anybody recognize the older man in that movie scene?
Levon Helm of The Band
Wow! Damn sure it was. I’m a big LH fan. Robbie R always tried to hog the stage but Levon provided the soul of The Band.
Owen Benjamin makes an interesting case for the fake moon landing. That nasa can’t produce the telemetry tapes and claims that they no longer have the technology to go back sounds like bullshit to me. Just where else did technology reverse itself? My perspective is to assume a conspiracy. Giving this evil government the benefit of the doubt is idiotic.
Read MoonDoggie, if it’s still up. You will be 99.9% sure the moon landings were faked.
If you wonder why we can’t reproduce the results, look harder at the level of education coming out of most institutions of so called higher learning. The average American citizen has become fat, dumbed down, lazy and happy these days. IMO
I’m not sure we could build the Hoover Dam now. If we did it’d cost $50B. We have landed rovers on Mars, and there are lots of geosynchronous satellites now. So much has been blasted up that “space junk” is a thing. The existence of an entire array of geosynchronous satellites by the late ‘80’s makes the moon landing (a crude, analogue endeavor) a mere 20 years earlier more believable to me.
But but but . . . when we watch footage from the Space Station . . . why don’t we ever see any of that cloud of space junk?
Are you sure we landed a rover on Mars? Everything supposedly coming from that rover looks like it’s from an earth-bound desert.
This is the only thing I agree with Flat Earthers on, that the moon landings were shot in a movie studio.
If you believe this NASA guy we supposedly “destroyed” the technology..
Then there is the Masonic connection
Why does the moon not spin? Is not everything else spinning? We only ever see one face.
Just as Judicial Watch is showing how a small cadre of crooked Obama admin and FBI cooked up the Russia-gate scandal and those below them didn’t know what they were actually doing, so was the moon landing hoax done. Compartmentalized.
Lee Harvey Oswald was part of something, but it is possible he never fired a shot at Kennedy. Somebody did. 9/11 was not really an “inside job”. It was an operation organized and carried out by Mossad, with help from American traitors. Deep State? Ha! I spent 30 years in the Federal government. It does exist and it hates Trump. Climate change is not a hoax. The climate is constantly changing, always has been. Human activity may or may not affect it.
With all the dual Israel-US citizen fucks in gubbermint, and all the cunts in congress sold out to AIPAC, it’s an inside job.
You have a point.
On top of his pin head.
If there is a deep state and Trump is at odds with it and 9/11 was a deep state operation as well, then what explains Trump’s campaign promise to expose the culprits of that 9/11 and has refused to do so even to this day?
Consider the following;
Now we have seen that since taking office, Trump has coddled the Saudi’s like no other president has. His first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia, made lucrative arms deals with the Saudi’s, and recently vetoed a bipartisan congressional vote to end US involvement in the wholesale slaughter of Yemeni’s carried out by Saudi Arabia.
Trump has his head so far up Saudi ass that you can’t tell were he begins and the Saudi’s end. Trump is not exactly a victim of any deep state, Trump is the deep state.
Here is more of the fraud case and Judas Goat named Trump;
And remember Southern Sage, unicorns are grazing on the Whitehouse lawn.
A public photo op, no less!
I understand your cynical viewpoint and share it to a certain extent. Trump (and the U.S. intel community) knows perfectly well that the Israelis were behind 9/11 and he has known from Day One the official story is bullshit. In fact, he was one of the few major public figures in America who correctly pointed out at the time that the two towers had obviously been brought down in a controlled demolition. Re the Saudi’s, they are the best friends of Israel in the Middle East and have been for years. The radical Islam crap was designed to keep their own crazies under control. Trump is currently curled up in Bibi Netanyahu’s asshole because Jared Kushner and his family have involved him in extremely shady deals the Israeli’s know all about. He is being blackmailed. The Israelis, thanks to our traitors, control all U.S. communications billing, can intercept our phones, and have total access to the NSA’s data vacuum cleaner of digital data. The world is uglier than you can imagine.
S.S.
I can’t argue with anything you said.
If you check it out, the “Israelis” in Israel and the Saudis are the same people. Israelis are not Biblical Hebrews.
That’s because the Saudis are what holds the petrodollar together. If the Saudis stop trading in dollars, per agreement, the U.S. currency will collapse.
Was Kennedy assassinated? A most excellent in plain sight magic show.
The moon landing was humankind’s greatest achievement. That’s why it was made a national holiday. The entire world is poised to celebrate it’s 50 year anniversary in just a few months. We all obviously have committed the date to memory… I was only 15 but I remember watching it live on TV. What an incredible moment.
I’d argue for the flush toilet. Without that, we’d be shitting in a hole in the kitchen floor like Chinamen – and my sagacious comments on TBP would be halved.
Oh please, everyone knows humankind’s greatest achievement was the invention of yoga pants.
If you saw it live on the TV it must have happened.
Disgusting, why would anyone care to see Iska sitting on a hole?
23 % percent of Americans think 9/11 was an inside job, and an interesting corollary, 77% of Americans are retarded.
Nailed it!
Not retarded, just “edumacated by the gubmint skools in exactamaly da way dayz sposed ta be edumacated.”
This was all part of the bigger agenda.
Are you mimicking Sum Ting Wong?
Those who believe the crackpot US governments crackpot story about 9/11 don’t understand the laws of physics. Only 23%?? That means that 77% do not understand Newtons law of gravity, something taught in elementary school curricula.
Charlotte Iserbyt, former Secretary Of Education under Ronald Reagan was 100% correct in her book titled “The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of AmeriKa”. This deliberate dumbing down is what enables the US government to peddle it’s crackpot stories and propaganda to the AmeriKan people/sheep.
If the Donald Trump told the AmeriKan people that unicorns were grazing on the Whitehouse lawn, the sheeple would believe him. If the official 9/11 story was true then how come Trump said while campaigning there was another side to the story that the US crackpot government was hiding. His direct verbatim quote;
“If I am elected, I’ll show you who was really behind the 9/11 attacks” ~ Donald Trump, 2-17-16
STILL WAITING ASSHOLE!
No pizzagate? Titanic? Holocaust? Russians throwing the 2016 election?
The Podesta emails which gave us Pizzagate!
So much corruption exposed with the Podesta email leaks from Wikileaks…yet they still travel freely.
Number 7 – . . . using chemicals to control the population (chemtrails)
Fluoride? Hello?
https://www.nap.edu/read/11571/chapter/9
The moon landings ,JFK ,9/11 ,deep State acting against Trump are just a few that are in my mind are proven conspiracy theories that are conspiracies. Just do some research.
BB, keep your eyes on the road, that made no sense.
Balls , now after a rereading I can see why. What I mean to say is that is the Moon landings never happened ,JFK was killed by more then one person. 9/11 was carried out by Israel and the deep State is acting against Trump. The Holocaust never happened.
I hope I have proven I’m not Cross eyed.
BB, I’m just glad you didn’t crash.
Hey BB, maybe I AM cross-eyed but I understood what you meant. . . and I agree with you; my point is that one certain chemical OTHER than “chemtrails” has been used against the population and there is a fair amount of evidence (just ask the East Germans) that it makes us “docile”, wrecks our thyroids, screws up our endocrine system (hormones), AND lowers intelligence. And maybe other bad stuff too. But THEY say it’s “good” for us. (But, if that’s the case, then, why in countries where healthcare is paid for with “public funds” [tax dollars] do they NOT fluoridate the water?) Funny, they used to say the same thing about smoking. And hey, glyphosate is safe enough to drink, right? (But it is also banned is most of the ABOVE countries. . . .)
Naturally grown and smoked tobacco isn’t the monster people think it is and it isn’t as addictive. Give the same tobacco to a corporation, and cancer and addiction follows. Funny how that works.
Did you ever stop to think it could be the over 4,000 chemicals (including MSG) that have been approved to be added to cigarette tobacco that makes them cause cancer (not listed on the package), or perhaps it’s the extra nicotine (excessive) in cigarettes that make people addicted?
Large corporations get a pass from the .gov and that’s one reason crony-capitalism sucks. They get by with killing people, including Big Pharma and Big Ag, and are never held to account.
Niebo, Amazing article. One of the best I have seen. Thanks for posting. Skimming over it I found conflicting and conflated opinions. And uncertainty.
I have no uncertainty that in high concentrations it has deleterious effects. As I have said before, a lifetime of inspecting dentitions revealed relatively few cases of fluorosis disfigurement of enamel surfaces. Fluoride ingestion in small doses is usually not visually noticeable although slight whitening is observed sometimes, without pitting on the enamel; which is part of severe fluorosis.
Disfiguring grey tetracycline stains are far more prevalent on people subjected to its exposure before it was learned that it would happen on developing teeth in vivo and in utero. I have treated 10 times as many tetracycline stained teeth than fluorotic ones. (I will avoid the syndrome of bleaching teeth to achieve artificial whiteness.)
“The investigators also reported that enamel fluorosis was present in 86% of the children in the high-exposure group and in 14% of the children in the low-exposure group and that skeletal fluorosis was found only in the high-exposure group at 9%.”
“…Studies based on fluoride exposure from the inhalation of smoke from coal fires are difficult to interpret because of exposure to many other contaminants in smoke.
“…The significance of these Chinese studies is uncertain
“…Because of the great affinity between fluorine and aluminum, it is possible that the greatest impairments of structure and function come about through the actions of charged and uncharged AlF complexes (AlFx).
“…Only aluminum showed any relation to cognitive impairment and that depended on the pH of the drinking water being below 7.3. Curiously, at higher pH values, a favorable effect on cognitive actions was found.
Too little or too much? The rise of aluminum cookware and its popularity in developing countries is of concern to me given the possibility of synergistic deleterious effects . I have watched this topic for a long time.
I have read a few studies that link “aluminum plaque” in the brain to Alzheimer’s, with one of the mysteries being “how did it cross the blood-brain barrier?” AlF, apparently, is the key; when the two are combined (via that high affinity), they easily cross and accumulate.
Which might explain the “explosion” in Alzheimer’s in the US. When did aluminum cookware become a “thing”?
According to this source, 1889:
https://www.aluminiumleader.com/history/timeline/#1889_1
And when did fluoridation begin (. . . in of all places with water issues, Michigan)?
1945.
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation
By 1960, it was pretty much nationwide. So . . . how long before the AlF plaques cause real damage?
“The Centers for Disease Control said in its weekly report that 11,311 people died from Alzheimer’s disease in 1987. In 1979, the first year of a study by the health agency, 857 deaths were attributed to the disease.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/02/us/alzheimer-s-disease-rate-up.html
Granted, the article “qualifies” that the dramatic increase MAY have been, in part, due to increasing awareness. Still, it makes ME wonder. . . .
When did they start putting aluminum in deodorant and why?
Everdry . . . 1903:
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-commercial-deodorants-1991570
Aluminum compounds plug the pores and decrease the amount of sweat. It’s a chemical “dryer”.
And this site has an interesting bit about aerosols that contained aluminum zirconium, which was banned in aerosols (inhalation issues) in the 70’s but is still available in sticks:
http://anti-perspirant.info/history_of_antiperspirants/
Keyser, the fact that a lot of the fluoride used in the U.S. comes from China is a concern to me. But I do agree with your concern over aluminum cookware. Also, non-stick cookware has been shown to be unhealthy as well.
Here’s one for ya- Does Donald Trump ACTUALLY EXIST?
BL,
Hahaha…or is he REAL? Or FAKE?
Or maybe he is a Time Traveler…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdBrlu7nUhs
Either Trump exists or the Democrats with Trump Derangement Syndrome are hallucinating.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCnOUt5JxHb7M1EGHUwDGdw/videos
Provoctive, truthful, hard hitting news around the useless bought and paid for ‘Mocking Bird’ corporate media that will expose the Democrats and the Republicans (two wings on the same bird – and it’s a buzzard) that is neither pro or anti Trump just Pro TRUTH.
Short staccato bursts of revealing insights.
Mark,
Thanks for sharing !
Just subscribed.
That’s a good video channel.
Insanity or closer to reality?
What level are you at in your awakening aka awareness?
Level 7… the KJB is the inspired and preserved word of God in the English language. This of course ought to be level 1, but “you know who” has everything all backwards.
I admit I’m a 4.5. Can’t get into the aliens theme. I believe the government is behind all UFOs.
A close family member has ties to a very wealthy old money Catholic who is a Bohemian Grove attendee. The guy won’t talk about BG, but in recent years has gotten to be pretty off the charts paranoid and gone full tilt guns, ammo, bunker, etc. Now is he afraid of something like what the Bolsheviks did with the gentile aristocracy (because that’s him to a T), or the masses rising up in revolt… alien invasion… or what?
Guns, ammo and a bunker is off the charts?? Then half of this community is nutty as a fruitcake.
Well, being in the 99.9% and being prepared is just prudent because you just don’t know what you don’t know. Makes sense, but what’s it tell you when the .1% starts prepping?
TC- Are you serious, the .001% have bunkers inside mountains near New Delhi and other locations around the world costing mega bucks and have been in place for at least 15-20 years now. Some billionaires have had bunkers put in NZ in the last few years, they can afford to prep in style.
TC,
Shoot, even Chuck Missler and his wife ‘relocated’ to New Zealand before they both went home. That is how worried they were about what was coming…and they believed in the Pre Trib snatch.
(Something tells me hundreds of thousands of Christians in the Middle East have missed Pre-Trib? And maybe America isn’t/won’t be the center of the world/the Bible?)
There have been long term massive (as BL said mountain drilling) underground preps by those who will cause what is coming or know what is inventible from being around the fringes of real Screw Tape level demons…like your close family member.
Both Globalists/high end government types and the ultra-wealthy (the three headed snake) are getting ready for what they think will be their survival and their springboard. (Too bad the pool will be empty).
U.S. ‘surface’ dwellers will have to figure it out…it’s not just that most ‘surface’ dwellers don’t have a clue…it’s that they are considered useless eaters by those who own the slaughter house and the digital pen…and (sad to say) most of them are just mooing.
It will eventually come down to a level the average American has lost any experience, knowledge of, expatiations of, or long term survival ability of.
BUT…then there is GOD.
He has been known to unexpectedly write on the wall at the height of the party…with His hand.
That will be the game changer no matter how deep the three headed snake slithers/digs into the mountains.
mene, mene, tekel, parsin
The writing is on the wall.
I think they know the economy is going to tank and they’re getting ready. They could also be getting ready for Russia-gate to unwind and hopefully – hopefully – some so-called elites getting hanged.
Just look at planes in the sky. The contrails are not the same. I like the rows of them that crisscross and hang there while the spread out. Not like normal ones we have seen all our lives that disappear shortly after the plane is gone. Idiots at Harvard admit they plan on spraying toxic crap soon. I think it has already been going on.
yasure- ONLY since 1993, but welcome to the party bud.
You know what’s really a conspiracy? The fact that a slew of articles about conspiracy theories pop up less than 24 hours after YouTube and Google go on an all out purge of anything relating to conspiracy theories.
Weird, huh?
Virtually every corporation, every academic institution, every governmental agency and NGO, the entire entertainment industry and all of tech work in coordinated lockstep and they don’t even bother to hide their footprints.
And if anyone believes those percentages came from anywhere other than thin air, they’re delusional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=iU83R7rpXQY
Does it really matter if google and youtube deletes that type of content? We were much happier people before the internet, they can shut the whole thing down if they feel the need IMO. Instant info and social media is turning humans into emotional bumble heads.
Bilderberg meeting this year was May 30th-June 2nd, but probably unrelated.
TC- Looks like a couple of people enjoy farcebook and twatter enough to down a comment declaring social media detrimental to humans…..oh well.
I’m surprised the percentages are so low. Except for the .gov holding aliens in Area 51, it’s all plausible. And many theories have plenty of evidence against the official narrative.