Probably the “mass shooting victims are crisis actors” BS. Now that I know someone who worked in the same building that a mass shooting occurred in (and he seems to have experienced some PTSD from it), people calling them all actors and harassing their families are the lowest of the low to me.
Flat earth is silly, but flat earthers don’t generally dox and harass people.
Political ones. They can affect society and can have destructive consequences. Also, any trying to stir up fear and hate of any group of people.
Others are just ridiculous (Australia does exist, Prince Charles was a vampire, etc) and seem fairly harmless However, even these can scramble a person's thinking, or at least distract them from important things.
The vast majority of them. Apply Arkham’s razor to a theory and it falls apart immediately, with very few exceptions. The easiest way to prove the moon landings happened is simply that a secret between two is only kept if one is dead, and over 400,000 people were involved in making the moon landing happen…none of whom have ever come forward to dispute the validity. There were no “tracking chips” in the covid vaccine simply because it would cost billions upon billions of dollars to develop a chip small enough to fit through a 25 gauge needle and still be powerful enough to be read by a satellite, and most people already carry a device that tracks their every move and we pay for the privilege (cell phones). The JFK assassination has some interesting wrinkles though.
The idea that the 2020 election was stolen away from Trump is probably one of the dumbest ones out there, especially given his victory in 2024.
How is it that the Democratic party conspired to give Biden a victory, but on the very same ballot decided to only gain 1 Senate seat (which at the time would not have given him a majority) and actually lose seats in the House?
How is it that millions of illegal aliens decided to vote in that one, but stayed home during an election with the highest possible stakes for them?
It's just a complete abdication of critical thinking skills
What really annoys me about "conspiracy theory" is the label itself. The leftist media have adopted this phrase in order to denigrate things that are sometimes completely true.
One very recent example of this is the press attempt to call revelations of fraud and waste and ridiculously stupid wastes of money in the USAID now discovered by DOGE.
