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We've all heard of absurd conspiracy theories like "the flat earth", "time travel" and "the birds that aren't real". People believe in such stories.
"The Internet has made conspiracy theories more visible and collaborative than ever before. People can easily find like-minded people, join groups and share their opinions."
According to Mark Fenster, a University of Florida law professor who studies the history of conspiracy theories, this is not surprising.
According to him, shocking and sudden events often fuel conspiracy theories because the public has a hard time understanding them.
"A plane crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? It sounds like something out of the movies," he said.
"It doesn't look like a real event,
In the past, conspiracy theorists relied on books, pamphlets and late-night talk shows to publicize their doctrine.
Today, they use ad platforms like Reddit, upload videos to YouTube and persuade surfers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
While we dismissed many of these theories outright - it turns out that we should have listened to at least 4 of them.
Iflscience reminded us that four famous conspiracy theories actually turned out to be true - at least in part.
Here are the conspiracy theories that proved to us that everything is possible:
It is better to equip yourself with an aluminum cap (Photo: Giphy)
The government is trying to send secret messages to our brains
if all conspiracy theories: The government is sending secret messages to our brains to control our thoughts.
Your only defense?
Triangular cap made of aluminum.
True?
Kind of... such a claim in the past labeled people as paranoid but today only more and more people believe it.
Donald Friedman was among the leaders of the conspiracy and in 2003 he submitted a request to the FBI to obtain information about all the "very serious crimes committed against me and against members of my family," as he wrote, that the US Secret Service "perpetrated against them for a very long time."
This demand sounds like a joke and indeed the government and his psychiatrist declared him as a person with mental problems, which did not help him in the legal battle.
His claims also sounded far-fetched: the main justification for his claim was a pair of shoes whose rear part was allegedly vaporized by "electromagnetic waves that were transmitted to him", when in general it was normal wear and tear of the shoes.
So it's true, Friedman didn't convince anyone - but the reality was not far from his exaggerated imagination.
"Hearing microwaves is a phenomenon, described as the sensation of buzzing, ticking, hissing, or knocking sounds originating in or behind the head," states a 2006 Pentagon report titled Bioeffects of Selected Non-Thalal Weapons, "This technology in its crudest form can be used to distract people.
If it is perfected, it could also be used to communicate with hostages using Morse code or other messaging systems, perhaps even by voice communication."
It also reads: "Since this technology uses radio frequencies, it can be overcome by using shielding provided by conductive barriers such as metal or metal screens."
In other words, the weird aluminum hats of the conspiracy buffs might well help in such a situation.
Surprising, eh?
The CIA is secretly drugging Americans in an attempt to control them
. This theory, which is somewhat related to the previous theory, claimed that the intelligence agency of the federal government of the United States drugged American citizens in an attempt to test mind control weapons.
This theory evolved from Project MK-Ultra, a code name for secret CIA research that was conducted against the law and involved human experimentation.
From the published evidence it appears that in this project attempts were made to influence the mental states of the individual and change the functioning of his brain, partly through drugs and other chemicals such as Al.
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This theory originates from the Cold War.
This was in the early 1950s.
The Soviet Union not only had a larger nuclear arsenal than the Americans or a more successful space program, but also seemingly dormant agents stationed in every school and newspaper, ready to recruit American children or write critical articles about the government.
None of this matched their most terrifying asset of all: the power of brainwashing.
At the end of the Korean War, a number of American soldiers suddenly began to confess to a number of terrible war crimes - and some even defected to North Korea.
In the end, it turned out that these men were simply horribly tortured as prisoners of war and horribly traumatized—but at the time, American intelligence explained their behavior as something far more mystical than that: somehow, they said, the Communists had found the ability to control their own minds.
The idea spread like wildfire.
No matter how serious he was, before long, the CIA realized that the enemy had the ability to remove all free will from a person - and that they too needed to get their hands on this technology.
LSD, a nasty little drug invented about 15 years earlier, was the first thing they thought of.
The CIA already knew it had seemingly secondary characteristics - so why not start there?
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"In the 1950s and early 1960s, the agency unwittingly drugged hundreds of unsuspecting Americans in an effort to explore the possibilities of human mind control," reported the New York Times in an obituary by Sidney Gottlieb of 1999, the pet Jews the CIA chose to put in charge of the MK-Ultra project.
"Many of the human guinea pigs were mentally ill, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes—'people who couldn't fight back,' as one agency officer put it," the article reads. for 174 days".
The CIA was so invested in LSD that many labeled the agency responsible for the entire psychedelic movement in the US.
“Stanford University ran a program where they asked volunteers to enlist and try this new substance.
Allen Ginsberg was one of the volunteers, so was Robert Hunter," journalist Steven Kinzer told NPR in 2019, "A similar series of experiments took place at the old Menlo Park hospital...all these original ingredients that came together in the 1960s to produce This great LSD-based counter-cultural insurgency can be traced back through these fake foundations to the CIA and ultimately to the head of MK-Ultra, Sidney Gottlieb."
The MK-Ultra project lasted two whole decades, during which zero LSD-based mind control techniques were discovered.
Eventually, in a fit of government paranoia following the Watergate affair, most of the CIA documents surrounding the project were destroyed - but enough remained to confirm one of the wildest, least ethical and most unbelievable-sounding stories in the history books.
"We don't know how many people died," Kinzer told NPR, "but it's certainly quite a number - and many lives have been destroyed."
Free health care is a trick the government uses to poison you
The coronavirus pandemic has affected us all in one way or another since it broke out nearly three years ago, but it certainly hasn't affected us all equally: Black Americans, it was found, were far more likely than other races to know a person who was hospitalized or died from the virus.
At the same time, they were the group least willing to receive one of the new vaccines offered to the general public.
The two facts seem clearly connected—and while many have struggled to sympathize with those who refused the vaccine out of disbelief—only to see their loved ones die soon after, it's probably a mistake to judge them: As New York Times columnist Charles Blau noted in a 2020 article, "Blacks in this country have been well trained, for centuries, to distrust both the government and the medical establishment regarding health care."
For example, if you hear an elderly person start talking about how the US government promised him and a group of his friends free medical care if they agreed to monitor their health for six months - only to actively kill about one in six of them by denying them access to cheap, life-saving drugs, there is a situation that he didn't really lose it.
This is exactly what happened in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, conducted between 1932 and 1972, is an infamous event in the history of medical ethics.
The clinical trial was conducted on a population of 399 dark-skinned manual workers, poor and mostly uneducated - and in a control group of another 200 people from this population, who were tested to test the treatment and natural course of the syphilis disease.
The experiment was conducted without any consideration for the health and human dignity of the participants.
The participants in the experiment did not give informed consent to participate in it and its results - and they were not informed that they had been diagnosed with syphilis.
In the 1940s, when penicillin was put into use, instead of treating all patients with penicillin and ending the experiment, the researchers at Tuskegee decided to hide the information about the existence of the drug and continue studying the development of the disease in their patients.
"They recruited 200+ patients into a control group who did not suffer from syphilis and simply transferred them to the positive group for syphilis if at any time they developed it," reads the article from McGill University, "They also began giving all patients ineffective drugs (ointments or capsules with too small doses of Neospanamine or mercury) to make them believe they are being treated for the disease."
Although penicillin was widely available by the late 1940s, researchers went out of their way to prevent the men enrolled in the study from accessing the drug.
Oddly, their argument for this relied on the (extremely racist) idea that black people were racially fated not to seek treatment for their illnesses, which you'd think would cause some cognitive dissonance since they themselves actively prevented these people from getting said treatment - but apparently not.
Even after a US Public Health Service researcher raised concerns about the study in the mid-1960s, the researchers behind the project refused to stop the experiment. experienced other serious health problems due to their untreated syphilis," says History.com.
That researcher leaked his story to the press and public outrage over the experiment led to its termination in 1972. By this time, 28 of the participants had died of syphilis—and another 100 had died of related complications. At least 40 women of the registrants were diagnosed with the disease and 19 children had it at birth.
This is just the most famous example of the US government experimenting on African Americans in the name of "science". informed consent," Blau wrote in the Times. "Not only that, he operated on these women without anesthesia, in part because he did not believe that black women experienced pain in the same way that white women did," he wrote. "When his experiments finally succeeded, he began To use white women, but then he also started using anesthesia for those women."
Add to that the long history of federal or local authorities targeting black people - and other minorities - and you begin to understand why even a free vaccination against a global epidemic might seem a little suspicious to some people.
There are hundreds of extraterrestrials buried under New Mexico — and
New Mexico is home to one of the most famous UFO conspiracies in history. "Roswell really has it all," Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes Guide to UFO Investigations, told IFLScience back in 2017. , "It has a government conspiracy, it's in a remote location, it has stories about aliens and spaceships - and the claim that these ruins were taken to Area 51", but is this just an urban legend?
Is it possible that a group of aliens is now buried beneath the soil of the New Mexico desert?
Well, the answer is probably no, but actually technically - it absolutely is.
It all started back in 1982, when the world was still reeling from the massive blockbuster hit that is "IT - A Friend From Another Planet".
Looking for a niche market that would generate more money, director Steven Spielberg turned to the video game industry and hired a young computer programmer named Howard Scott Warsaw to design an IT video game for the Atari 2600 console. "I made the IT video game, the game that is widely regarded as the video game Worst ever," Warsaw told NPR in 2017.
The game was confusing and seemed unfinished when it was completed in just five weeks.
In addition to being a bad game, it also came out right before the infamous video game crash of 1983—a massive industry downturn during which home video game revenue plummeted by 97 percent over two years.
In the end, the IT video game was such a big failure for Atari that they simply decided to bury the unsold game caches in the desert and cover the evidence with concrete, finally confirming New Mexico's reputation as hiding "extraterrestrial disasters".
This story has a happy ending: in 2015 the games were dug up, sold and raised more than $108,000 for the local city coffers.
Which just goes to show that one man's trash really might be another man's treasure.
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