Conspiracy theory master list

billvon

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Thought I'd make a "master list" of conspiracies I've read about to track them and see how they evolve over time. I'll try to format them to group them and make them easier to read.
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Plandemic: the idea that the COVID pandemic was planned to accomplish some goal.

-Fauci evil: Anthony Fauci engineered the pandemic.

-Bill Gates 5G trackers: Bill Gates created the vaccine (which doesn't work) to be able to implant microscopic 5G trackers in people's bodies.

-There was no pandemic: the pandemic was made up, and any reports of death were 1) fake 2) really caused by ventilators or antivirals or 3) really caused by the COVID vaccine.

-Suppression of Ivermectin the miracle drug: claim that Ivermectin, a common dewormer, can cure COVID, cancer, autism and a host of other diseases, but that Anthony Fauci (or other evil actors) are suppressing it.

Anti-vax: idea that vaccines are actually dangerous; they do not prevent disease but instead cause sicknesses including autism, cancer, blood clots and arthritis.

-"No such thing as a virus": more recent theory that all viral diseases are actually poisonings by vaccines, and that viruses have actually never been detected or observed. According to this theory, disease is just "your body detoxing."

-"No such thing as a germ": this is an extension of the above conspiracy theory, that bacteria and prions do not exist either.

Chemtrails: the idea that airliners are spraying chemicals like barium into the air for nefarious purposes, usually to sicken people.

Flat Earthers: The Earth is flat, not spherical, and covered by a dome that also holds the Sun and Moon.

-"Space isn't real": there have been no space missions because the Earth is flat, and thus orbits (or "leaving the dome") is impossible.

-Apollo hoaxers: The Apollo Moon missions were faked, like the movie Capricorn One.

Climate change deniers: this is a large category, all of which deny the existence or effects of climate change due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

-"Climate isn't warming": this conspiracy theory claims that the temperature data is faked, or is due to "heat islands," or since it got colder in Ding Dong, TX that's all that matters.

-"Climate is warming but we didn't do it": claims that all the warming is natural.

-"Maybe we did it but all warming is good": claims that since people are cold in winter warming will be good. Also that CO2 is an "amazing aerial fertilizer" that will green the planet and save untold lives.

Creationism: the idea that God did everything, and natural physical/biological processes did not shape the Earth or life.

-Young Earth Creationism (YEC): a literal interpretation of Genesis. The Earth and all life were created by God in six 24-hour days, approximately 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

-Old Earth Creationism (OEC): Accepts the actual age of the Earth but believes in direct divine creation of life.

--Gap Creationism: There was a long time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, thus allowing a long geologic history

--Day-age creationism - every day in Genesis was actually a long time

-Progressive Creationism: Earth is old but God created life periodically over time (i.e. new species.)

-Intelligent Design (ID): Earth is old and life evolved but God directed it and added information

-Theistic Evolution: This is very close to the current scientific explanation of how life evolved, but claims that God set it all in motion billions of years ago.

9/11 Truthers: 9/11 was a controlled demolition pulled off by the government.

Reptilian overlords: This conspiracy, started by David Icke, claims shapeshifting reptilian aliens control Earth by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate human societies.

Trump won in 2020: claim that a vast conspiracy changed votes to allow Biden to win

Secret Hillary Clinton child sex-and-sacrifice ring under Comet Pizza in Washington DC: self explanatory
 
Chemtrails: the idea that airliners are spraying chemicals like barium into the air for nefarious purposes, usually to sicken people.
My favorite version is that they are spraying contraceptive chemicals to limit population. The sort of thing believed by people who can't grasp the concentrations required to have something dispersed in the stratosphere affect water and food supplies. Or why almost any other delivery system would work better at targeting humans. The same people who won't look through a microscope to test the bacteria don't exist theory.

I blame the reptilian overlords for spreading all this unreason.
 
I really thought the world had gone mad. "Pandemic," yes, that was a regular.
COVID is fake, it's just flu, it only kills old people (because they don't matter obviously) NWO, it's Bill Gates etc.
Also, "PCR does not work, even the inventor said that."
Kary Mullis died 5 months before COVID was announced as a thing.
 
I really thought the world had gone mad. "Pandemic," yes, that was a regular.
COVID is fake, it's just flu, it only kills old people (because they don't matter obviously) NWO, it's Bill Gates etc.
Also, "PCR does not work, even the inventor said that."
Kary Mullis died 5 months before COVID was announced as a thing.
I had to look this guy up. Seems he developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction technique, got a Nobel Prize - and then went nuts as some of them do, talking rubbish about areas of science he knew nothing about, cf. Linus Pauling.
 
I really thought the world had gone mad. "Pandemic," yes, that was a regular.
COVID is fake, it's just flu, it only kills old people (because they don't matter obviously) NWO, it's Bill Gates etc.
Also, "PCR does not work, even the inventor said that."
Kary Mullis died 5 months before COVID was announced as a thing.
It should be "pandemic."
 
I had to look this guy up. Seems he developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction technique, got a Nobel Prize - and then went nuts as some of them do, talking rubbish about areas of science he knew nothing about, cf. Linus Pauling.
Yes unfortunately.
You think about the impact he made, forensics, DNA profiling, Biotechnology, Evolutionary Biology.
I think he ended up saying a lot of stupid stuff, about HIV and AIDS?

Anyway the idiots on line just repeated nonsense they read on Facebook/Twitter.
 
Read Mullis' book years ago, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (OSLT). It's actually pretty entertaining and not without some incisive observations, but yeah he's always been rather eccentric. One can read DNITMF and enjoy the boundless curiosity while taking some of it with a grain of salt. I can't recall ATM how much conspiracy stuff there was (he wrote it in the late nineties), but IIRC even then he was questioning a lor of settled science.

 
Read Mullis' book years ago, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (OSLT). It's actually pretty entertaining and not without some incisive observations, but yeah he's always been rather eccentric. One can read DNITMF and enjoy the boundless curiosity while taking some of it with a grain of salt. I can't recall ATM how much conspiracy stuff there was (he wrote it in the late nineties), but IIRC even then he was questioning a lor of settled science.

Nobel disease may be at least in part be due to journalists hanging on every word a prizewinner utters and even seeking out his or her opinion, on topics unrelated to their field of study. The mistake, then, is to respond by offering an opinion. But some, like Pauling, did embrace ballocks.
 
As one snarky Australian commentator suggested recently - all medical conspiracy theories lead to sales pitches for supplements. That was before the new Trump pick for US Surgeon General (Nicole Saphier) was appointed. She appears to be opposed to immunisation as a public good and... has a company selling supplements (that boost the immune system blah, blah, etc).

The working for with Fox News may have contributed to Saphier seeing the public as gullible marks that are easy load up with alarmist fears, conspiracy theories and targets for blame and hatred. The primary lesson may be that it is easy to extract money from them - for Fox indirectly, by extracting money from advertisers of supplements in a 'win-win' game between them that is lose-lose for the public. A culture of cynical disregard for responsibility, accountability and morality - and truth - seems to pervade our biggest media companies. Truth has become whatever they say it is to the point where many people can't recognise the real thing even when it hits them in the respiratory system.

The idea of 'public good' is a sacrifice those with lots of money and excellent healthcare coverage are willing to make for commercial opportunity... because it doesn't hurt them. (They think).

I would not be surprised to learn that Nicole Saphier herself keeps herself and family fully immunised.

The Global-Warming-is-Conspiracy conspiracy to save fossil fuels is a whole other level - of genuine organised conspiring.

It does seem to stand out for being taken up very widely by people of the greatest power and influence, who really should - and probably do - know better. The embedding of lies as truth in the public consciousness about some of the things in Billvon's list border on kinda-amusing but the systematic lying about a profoundly serious and irreversible threat to global economies and human societies - not to mention to remnant ecoystems and the people including scientists trying to find our way to dealing with it - by people holding the highest Offices of public trust is extraordinarily irresponsible and dangerous.
 
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Could we change the wording of the title a bit? There is a difference between the word conspiracy and the term conspiracy theory. One describes a documented action, and the other describes a proposed explanation.

A conspiracy is something that actually happened. Which is not what I think the OP of this thread is trying to do, I think he is trying to track conspiracy theories.

In this case, words and their meanings actually matter.
 
Could we change the wording of the title a bit? There is a difference between the word conspiracy and the term conspiracy theory. One describes a documented action, and the other describes a proposed explanation.

A conspiracy is something that actually happened. Which is not what I think the OP of this thread is trying to do, I think he is trying to track conspiracy theories.

In this case, words and their meanings actually matter.
Not sure I agree; we can discuss both and the overlap between them. Promoting a conspiracy theory can involve conspiracy. It may be a common ingredient of conspiracy theories that there are people conspiring to promote them. Both knowingly and as dupes.
 
Not sure I agree; we can discuss both and the overlap between them. Promoting a conspiracy theory can involve conspiracy. It may be a common ingredient of conspiracy theories that there are people conspiring to promote them. Both knowingly and as dupes.
I agree a conspiracy theory can become a conspiracy, but that still means they two separate things. Just like hypothesis and scientific theory have two different meanings, but one thing can become the other. With evidence. In terms of the OP, he is referring to conspiracy theories. These are not yet proven conspiracies.

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"A conspiracy theory is distinct from a conspiracy; it refers to a hypothesized conspiracy with specific characteristics, including but not limited to opposition to the mainstream consensus among those who are qualified to evaluate its accuracy, such as scientists or historians."

 
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w1z4rd - Should I therefore have corrected "The Global-Warming-is-Conspiracy conspiracy" in earlier post to "The Global-Warming-is-Conspiracy-Theory conspiracy"? Or perhaps to Global-Warming-is-Conspiracy is a conspiracy theory?

It does look like a well supported conspiracy (rather than a conspiracy theory) to convince regulators and voters that it is driven by a dangerous and false extremist conspiracy, rather than by decades of consistent top level science based advice. A conspiracy to promote a conspiracy theory that global warming science and activism is a conspiracy...

Is being 'active' about it and engaging in networking conspiring? Words can get a bit slippery and common usage can be a lubricant.
 
Words can get a bit slippery and common usage can be a lubricant.
People often confuse the scientific usage of the term "scientific theory" which is evidence based approach to a hypothesis with the common usage of the word theory, it just conjecture. Sometimes the common usage is just plain wrong and misrepresents the meaning of the words/term. How many times have biologists being met with the argument, "But evolution is just a theory". Not understanding the correct meaning means people can easily be befuddled by those type of arguments.

Im glad this forum upholds the standards and the intention of these two words/terms. Otherwise we end up on a slippery slope into semantics and words/terms lose their intention of the meaning behind them. This then can be abused by bad actors or people spreading disinformation.
 
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Im glad this forum upholds the standards and the intention of these two words/terms. Otherwise we end up on a slippery slope into semantics and words/terms lose their intention of the meaning behind them.
I am not overly troubled by the variations in word usage. I'm fairly sure most people get the differences from the context - in this place with opportunity for providing correction if needed.

For 'conspiracy theory' the word means the opposite of what theory as used for science does, ie it means an unproven/unprovable claim.

Common usage for 'theory' keeps slipping through the nets of pedantry - to the point where it has become the correct usage.

Arguing about terminology is fine, but can also be distraction - I recall many 'but denier means Holocaust Denier'', 'Is it Climate Change or Global Warming?' discussions that made it about what we call things (with imputing nefarious motivations for the choices) instead of discussing the things.
 
For 'conspiracy theory' the word means the opposite of what theory as used for science does, ie it means an unproven/unprovable claim.

Common usage for 'theory' keeps slipping through the nets of pedantry - to the point where it has become the correct usage.
So what would the (pedantic) correct term? Conspiracy lunacies? Conspiracy derangement?
 
So what would the (pedantic) correct term? Conspiracy lunacies? Conspiracy derangement?
'Conspiracy Theory' does appear to be widely accepted as correct, despite the inversion of meaning compared to use within science (but is well aligned with common usage outside of science). If not called that I have no idea. When we say 'conspiracy theory' the vast majority know what is meant and usage is the final arbiter.

I do get w1z4rd's point about the importance of being clear about saying what we mean - but I also think we have been, despite the slipperiness of semantics. And despite getting a bit playful with the juxtaposition of the different usages for 'theory' - being able to do so is indicative of people understanding what is said.
 
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-Bill Gates 5G trackers: Bill Gates created the vaccine (which doesn't work) to be able to implant microscopic 5G trackers in people's bodies.

Isn't the reverse also a nutball conspiracy theory, ie. that 5G spread COVID? Or, if not specifically COVID, 5G is a vehicle for spreading/causing... <insert malady here, real or perceived>.
 
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