What's the most ridiculous conspiracy theory you've ever heard?

That Democrats are systematically killing children. (Via Q-Anon and Alex Jones.)

One version is that they kill them to drink their blood, which supposedly contains a substance that prolongs life.

Another version is that they force people at gunpoint to kill children and record it on camera, in order to blackmail the person.

It is amazing that none of these child victims have been named, and that no parent has complained.

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Prediction: someone who reads this, and is angry that I posted it, will try to discredit me by intentionally twisting my words and saying, "So, Watson, you're [i]not[/i] upset about the killing of children?"

It's an old, completely ineffective, rhetorical dodge.

I think the weight of any theory is in preponderance of the evidence to support it. We are increasingly living in a data-driven world. In that idea the larger or more aggressive the claim is that has either a lack of evidence or worse contradictory evidence Some of the the claims that hit the benchmarks, of

I am not sure ridicoulus is the word choice I woudl personally but instead say :

Bold claim that Lacks evidence or has contradictory evidence include (for examples)


a ) global warming is a hoax.
b) the world is flat (flat earthers)
c) D Trump had the election stolen from him
d) alien abduction stories, (obviously I haven’t heard all of them)
e) God exists (at least in the Abrahamic religions / an anthropomorphic God)

But I do realize there are deep emotional commitments to each and everyone of those and do not want to be completely insensitive to that reality.

I think the emotional commitments are fascinating though and wish people would spend more time explaining why they are emotionally invested in those ideas as opposed to not have data driven evidence.

COVID being a bioweapon and at the same time perfectly safe to catch, and this according to the same people

Birds are not real. (Then who poops on my car??)

@TBIman says [quote]The globe is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory I've ever heard?[/quote]

Here's a bit of the "round Earth" evidence that we can all observe. No NASA, no satellites, just local observations. Well, OK, the plane routes might cost some serious $$.

I particularly liked this one proving the "eye level horizon" claim is false
https://flatearth.ws/water-level-horizon
I also liked this one disproving claim 6 (just google for Ponchartrain power lines; hundreds have shot this image)
I liked this one disproving claim 20
And this one disproving claims 34,35
And this one disproving claims 56,57

Probably flat earthers.

There is a live angel, chained in the basement of the Vatican.

Flat Earth and Young Earth theorists.

That I was once a baby dropped from a plane

That the founding fathers were all satanists. There's a truly lengthy body of "proof", including a pentagram street design in Washington DC, and the fact that some or many of the founding fathers were Masons and included Masonic symbols on our money.

JFK is not only alive.
He’s coming back as trumps VP…

I would have thought there’s a crime somewhere about faking your death.. let alone busting back on the scene … TA DA

That Meghan Markle wishes to be Queen of England.

The Earth is actually concave.

The globe is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory I've ever heard?

Pizzagate. That a pizza place was sacrificing children.

That the founding fathers were all satanists. There's a truly lengthy body of "proof", including a pentagram street design in Washington DC, and the fact that some or many of the founding fathers were Masons and included Masonic symbols on our money.

flat earthers
moon landing deniers
"chem"-trails
Anthropogenic global warming/climate change
etc.

The claim by racists that Michelle Obama was once a man, in spite of all the photos of her as a little girl, and the two daughters who look just like her and her husband. Jokes about that still really annoy me. 🤬

Scientology