Draw the curtains and lock the door - because what I’m about to tell you is completely top secret.
- The ash cloud halting all planes this week was just a cover-up to stop people seeing UFOs.
- The Government is always watching us and knows more about ourselves than we do.
- Aliens with supreme intelligence and technology lived on this planet before us.
- Planes have been grounded because of UFOS in the area - not the ash.
- World domination has been planned for centuries by leaders.
- Flouride is put in our water to dumb us down.
- The pope knows the day the world will end.
- GM foods cause cancer and serious illness.
- Swine flu was created by scientists.
- 9/11 was an inside job.
These are just a number of conspiracy theories that have been nudged my way via a number of different sources this week.
Although it does emphasise the powers of freedom of speech in this country.
Unlike information restrictions in China where Google is still fighting a battle to this day, views like this can get through to the mainstream public and they have a right to believe what they want.
But why do people believe in conspiracy theories and why do people seem to be more popular now than ever.
Patrick Leman of new scientist magazine asked the question why do we believe in conspiracies:
“One factor fuelling the general growth of conspiracy beliefs is likely to be that the internet allows new theories to be quickly created, and endlessly debated by a wider audience than ever.
"For instance a conspiracy-based website built around the death of Princess Diana, for example, sprang up within hours of the car crash that killed her in 1997.“Instability makes most of us uncomfortable; we prefer to imagine we live in a predictable, safe world, so in a strange way, some conspiracy theories offer us accounts of events that allow us to retain a sense of safety and predictability.”
Case closed then - or is it….?
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