Let me be more precise: if you were told for certain that one was true, but not which one was, which would you think it was?

A small group running the world is true, so I'll go with that one.

Hmm, OK, sorry. I mean a small group of elite people _secretly_ running the world. My parenthetical was meant as an example list, not as an excuse to choose to put an opinion that isn't a conspiracy at all. :-P

Or maybe that's what you meant.

Oh, well in that case I'll go with Tupac still being alive.

Nice.

Elvis isn't dead, he just went home to Alpha Centauri. :-) Just kidding.

I'd have to go with JFK's assassination.

I would have to go with the illuminati conspiracy theory, and I would say that actually has about a 50-50 chance of being true.

@Draug

What, exactly, about JFK?

The Loch Ness Monster in my favorite conspiracy-total fabrication. Doctored Photos, men of the cloth telling bald-faced lies, and a total defiance of scientific fact.

Yeah, I'm with you Draug. I actually think there's a pretty good chance that that one's true. (i.e., that there were several people, possibly some of substantial power, involved in the JFK killing).

^So like creationism or all-natural global warming?

Aliens building the pyramids, because Stargate wouldn't lie to me.

*addressed to TC

The idea of a second shooter. The HSCA foudn that at least four shots were fired, that there was significant evidence of a second shooter (meaning Oswald was involved in a conspiracy of some sort) and that the Warren Commission did a crappy job.

That the NBA really added the 3 point shot to give white boys a chance.

That Bud Selig has a personal vendetta against Pete Rose.

TnT 1,000,000,000+ LOL!

The whole space race in the 1960s was a propaganda fight. The Soviets tried to show they were superior by faking Yuri Gagarin's orbit of the earth. The U.S. called their bluff and raised by faking the Apollo 11 landing. The Soviets couldn't really cry foul without admitting their own fake, and were hesitant to go *really* out on a limb by raising again (like a fake landing on Mars). Since the Cold War ended, we've had very little "progress" since these fake benchmarks. Humans still have never landed on the moon.

Skylab was probably a fake too. Ooh, where is it going to land = propaganda. It's possible that the current international space station efforts are legit, but perhaps not.

Andy Kaufman still alive, I

+1 SC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5fdH0uEpXs&feature=feedu

Stop questioning everything...Beware!!

also Ted Kennedy drunk driving deal. Def. a cover up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_u05kUx1WQ

The Manhattan Project from the perspective of those who were not in the loop, but suspected something big was going on. Those ''nut jobs'' turned out to be 100 % right.

Even the full name was a great choice - ''The Manhattan Engineering District''

Metal Gear project. Just because.

Not saying it's a conspiracy at all just there is something dodgy about 9-11 something just doesn't add up

Just like Osama's death obviously doesn't add up. Something is wrong there, but attempting to pinpoint it is simply speculation, as all evidence has been destroyed.

Why doesnt it add up?

Because there are at least 3 separate accounts of what happened all released by the same people which all contradict each other, with the exceptions of "Osama is dead", "we killed him" and "His body is under the ocean". For example, the building they raided changed frequently, the circumstances they killed him in changed more so.

New Worldism is by far the biggest conspiracy out there.

Apparently, so these conspiracy nutters would have us believe, there is another country far far away called the "United States" which was supposedly founded half a millenia ago by a bunch of religious lunatics in a boat and now has a population of many hundreds of millions and is responsible for all the world's ills.

Why are we fighting a war in Afganistan? The "Americans" made us do it.
Why are we have economic problems? The "Americans" cocked-up their housing market.
Why is it too bloody hot? The "Americans" are heating up the world with giant coal fires
Why is it cold and wet and stormy? The "Americans" are heating up the world with giant coal fires (bizzarely the conspiracy nuts use the same reasoning as when it's too hot).
Why are there riots in London? The "Americans" infected our youth with gangsta rap and now they've all gone crazy.
...The list is endless.

Now it's easy to pick holes in this theory due to the huge inconsistancies that New Worldists have in their beliefs. On the one hand they claim "Americans" are stupid, and yet they also claim they have developed the most advanced technology in the world. They insist that the "Americans" have by far the most powerful military force in the world, and yet claim that despite this they hardly ever do that well in wars.

Complete Tosh! How daft do they think we are???

@ddshock: None of that indicates a specific conspiracy as such. Often departments within a government will give each other inaccurate information. Or people make stuff up on the spot to look clever. Thank god none of us here would ever do that.

One conspiracy theory I genuinely believe, however, is that Gillette deliberately blunt the replacement baldes of their old model razors whenever they launch a new one.

Not quite on the scale of Moon landing or Presidential assassination conspiracy theories, I admit, but in many ways more relevant to my daily life.

@fiedler: I suppose you could be right, this could just be due to the general incompetence of the people involved, but when coupled with the lack of any evidence of what any of them said actually happening, it seems a little odd.

I've always assumed that Osama died of some other cause, either disease or some random nutjob punching his number, and the US decided to take credit for it. The massive discrepancies between the reports would then be due to the agencies not ironing out the details before releasing it to the press.

An alternate theory would be that the first report is what actually happened, then the government started trying to get them to punch it up a bit more to make the american strike force sound more heroic, and Osama more of a coward.

Yeh, I've always assumed they've had his body in the deep freeze for the last 10 years. Anythings possible ;D

''New Worldism is by far the biggest conspiracy out there.''

Yes i have noticed that too. Do you know that some people actually say that the USA didn't find the enigma code machine?

http://www.film4.com/features/article/hollywood-apos-s-phoney-war

What a bunch of yellow-livered ungrateful bastards eh? :-)

"Oh, well in that case I'll go with Tupac still being alive."

QFT. I'll see you at the comeback tour.

Even the full name was a great choice - ''The Manhattan Engineering District''

It was a logical choice, it was tied with the Manhattan engineering district headquarters of the Army corps of Engineers

It seems at least possible to me that the US seriously screwed up some international war laws when they killed Osama, and disguising this fact is what led to the appearance of deceit. Just a thought.

I've got 3.
The creation of the Federal Reserve
The Gulf of Tonkin
The 2003 Iraq war