History Quotes / ConspiracyTheorist

->[[TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]] is the Most Dangerous Woman in the World!

->If you closely analyze the explosions here, here, and here, you’ll notice that this is a controlled demolition. And if you take all segments and the first letter of each city that each segment was shot in, it spells out the word "CNHOS", which means nothing but it clearly reveals that the government has been infiltrated by TheIlluminati, whose informant, as we all know, is none other than [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]] and the author of the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban third]] ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book, which alludes to an alien plot to destroy the world, but not just any alien, but this alien, [[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial this alien]], and this alien. And who is the only human being who can save us from this GovernmentConspiracy? NicolasCage.

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-->-- ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', "Question Authority"

-->-- '''RayWilliamJohnson''' on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggg3C87UVCY this environmentalist ad]] in the episode aptly titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yEXai8MoQ&t=3m13s "Conspiracy Theory"]]

->"The whole point of the Copernican theory is to get rid of Jesus by saying there is no up and no down... the spinning ball thing just makes the whole Bible a big joke.

->The Last Battalion is an elite unit which helped [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Fuhrer]] escape in secret! An insane army with [[StupidJetpackHitler cutting-edge technology]] and [[{{Ghostapo}} a powerful relic which absorbed Christ's blood,]] bent on enacting the Fuhrer's grudge! It's all in this book... [[MayanDoomsday Everything they're doing is in accordance with the Oracle of Maia]] in the ''In Lak'ech''! The Oracle of Maia was left to us by [[AncientAstronauts the Pleiades aliens who gifted mankind with civilization...]] It's a message entrusted to us by the Maians! Did you really think we evolved from apes on our own!? The answers aren't in history books! How did man come so far, so fast!? There's evidence all over the world of their presence in ancient times! It proves that mankind was guided by an ancient race! ...Underneath the netherworld is where the Maians sleep... [[{{Mayincatec}} The starship Xibalba is here!]] All sorts of civilizations originated there... But the ancient Maians that thrived here died during an intergalactic civil war... The victors were the Bolontiku race that controls Xibalba... [[ToServeMan When the Bolontiku thoughtforms take physical bodies, they will bring destruction to us all!]] That's why we can't go public with this!
-->--'''Maya Okamura''', ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'' [[note]]:All of these statements are [[PoesLaw taken from real-life conspiracy theorists]].[[/note]]

->Deb, listen to me Deb. They're at it again and people have got to know. They've got to know because they don't know; they won't report this stuff on the news because they own the news! Conspiracy? This goes beyond conspiracy, okay? There is no word for something as devious and secret as this, you understand? People need to hear this; they need to know the real story! Alright, [[AsYouKnow as we all know]] the Americans established a Moon base back in the [[TheSeventies late seventies]], that's no secret. But what most people don't know is that they have been conducting a dig. Not for resources, but for artifacts. Well, it's no coincidence that the Chinese have started conducting space missions. You know why? I'll tell you why. The reason is because the Chinese are trying to stop the Americans from finding an ancient space probe send by the Beta-Centaurians. And why? Because the Beta-Centaurians are giving space technology to the Chinese to get back at the Andromedans - a.k.a. TheGreys - for giving space technology to the Americans in TheFifties. The American government's been putting more money into space. Don't you see what's happening? I can't believe I'm the only one that's figured it out! Am I the only person alive that can see what's going on? It's because the Andromedans and the Betas are going to be fighting their war in this galaxy through us, Deb. And the American people, the people of Earth, you people, cannot let this happen! It's Mu versus {{Atlantis}} all over again!\\
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Deb. I'm about to reveal something that... I'm putting my life on the line. But the people, the people of this city and this country and this planet, they have the right to know this, do you understand? This is serious. There are a lot of organizations who would do anything in their power to keep this a secret. Deb, Deb, this is really serious now, can I finish? All right. Everyone knows they've got cameras at every stoplight so the government can keep tabs on our comings and goings. But did you know that they then sold access to their data bases to TheIlluminati, who has been using that information to compile a list of the most frequently traveled routes and then opening new locations of their well-known chain of coffee houses in the most profitable locations? And did you also know that they use those funds to suppress fusion and solar power? Well they, the Illuminati, control all the world's energy, and, because they monitor all of our energy usage, they can tell who is not watching television and therefore know who is not receiving the subliminal messages that they send to keep the sheep putting their money in banks away from their secret headquarters, a.k.a. Wyoming. As a matter of fact, and again I shouldn't be talking about this, but I believe that it's everybody's right to know that recycling is a myth. All that they do with those bottles and cans is [[ParanoiaFuel collect DNA samples from your saliva, so that they can clone you]]. And train your clone to [[KillAndReplace assassinate you and assume your identity]], should you go poking your nose into the whole global warming business.\\
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Deb, this is it! This time I stumbled across something that is bigger than anything you could possibly imagine. A threat to the entire human race's existence. Deb, nothing can prepare the world for this. This is the biggest story in the history of humanity ever! Ever, Deb. How I found this out I can't say, but I'm risking my life to tell the world this. Are you prepared for this? People of Los Angeles, {{vampire}}s walk among us. Hear me out, Deb. Vampires are among us and have been since the dawn of time. And Los Angeles... Well, there's more vampires per person here than anywhere else in the world. People are killed by vampires all the time, but [[WrittenByTheWinners their secret vampire society covers it up]]. Who blew up that warehouse in Santa Monica? Vampires! What happened to the crew of the Elizabeth Dane? Vampires! Want to know what happened to that sarcophagus that disappeared? Vampires took it. The prince of vampires to be more specific. He wants to use it against a league of other vampires that have been trying to get a foothold in our city. And get this! There could be an even older vampire in the sarcophagus. An ancient super-vampire! It's the truth, Deb. TheUndead are all around us. We need to rise up and destroy our evil vampire overlords before it's too late!
-->-- '''Gomez''', ''[[ShowWithinAShow Deb of Night]]'', ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. [[spoiler:The last "theory" is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight pretty much a summary of the plot of the game]].]]

->The [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clintons]] and the ‘Mainstream Media’ have been hiding their involvement in [[ComplexityAddiction the creation of the man-made pandemic called AIDS and that this dread disease serves Jewish interests. And they have hidden the truth that they exported poison blood from an Arkansas prison for injection into the arms of black school children in Africa, to fulfill China’s Africa Policy: exterminate the indigineous population to make room for wave upon wave of Chinese immigrants yet to come. Once China occupies Africa, they will seize control of the Mediterranean Sea and choke off America’s primary source of energy. This is the reason the Jews (disguised as environmentalists) have not allowed America to drill domestically for oil or build nuclear power plants for decades. And once China controls the Mediterranean Sea, they can turn the continent of Europe red with communism and the blood of Christians, and finally fulfill the Jew’s eternal goal: to plant the head of the Pope on a pole in Vatican City in sight of the Holy See.]]

'''TheQuestion''': Topically applied fluoride doesn't prevent tooth decay. It ''does'' render teeth detectable by {{spy satellite}}!\\

->Conspiracy theories represent a known glitch in human reasoning. The theories are of course occasionally true, but their truth is completely uncorrelated with the believer's certainty. For some reason, sometimes when people think they've uncovered a lie, they raise confirmation bias to an art form. They cut context away from facts and arguments and assemble them into reassuring litanies. And over and over I've argued helplessly with smart people consumed by theories they were sure were irrefutable, theories that in the end proved complete fictions.
-->-- '''''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'''''

->There is of course a dark side to [[AuthorAppeal all the conspiracy elements]] of their films, which is that at least one of them believes in them for real. [Roberto] Orci is a 9/11 truther who previously tweeted about the collapse of WTC 7 (just, you know, asking questions), and on the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, he told his followers to look out for 'evidence of Government drills' in Boston (coded language for suggesting the attack was a '[[FalseFlagOperation false flag]]' operation by our own government).
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Kurtzman_Orci_Directing_Star_Trek_3_Venom.aspx "Kurtzman and Orci to direct (and ruin) Venom, Star Trek 3"]]

->Do I really need to go into the politics? It is some of the most inane, delusional, contradictory nonsense ever spewed out on screen. It’s bad when I’m a liberal and [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn you are making me want to vote for Nixon]]. Basically the evil “government” is responsible for all evils in the world short of throwing babies in a woodchipper (and that’s only because we don’t know about it yet due to the government keeping it hush hush).
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/the-trial-of-billy-jack-tom-laughlin-1974/ on]] ''The Trial of Billy Jack''

->[=Joe McCarthy=] was [[HiredToHuntYourself probably himself a commie]] portraying a specific role and task on the way towards communizing this country.It was probably a deliberate misdirection ploy to misdirect the public's attention to later subtle communization tactics.
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->Perhaps the wackiest example of this was the British journalist Douglas Reed who, seeing that the result of Hitler's policies was the destruction of Germany, concluded, without further evidence, that therefore Hitler was a conscious agent of external forces who deliberately set out to ruin Germany.
-->--'''Murray N. Rothbard''' "[[http://mises.org/daily/2809 The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited"]]

->I heard tall tales about how doctors got paid premiums to vaccinate our children, and that the medical community is purposely poisoning everyone for every reason under the sun, including population control, money, and even just “[[ForTheEvulz because they’re evil]].”
-->--'''[[http://www.voicesforvaccines.org/i-was-duped-by-the-anti-vaccine-movement/ Maranda Dynda]]''' former anti-vaxxer

->Human beings fill in blanks with imagination, and when faced with superior force those blanks are invariably painted black.
-->--'''[[http://secretsunjr.blogspot.com/2013/02/mib-ufo-virtual-reality-and-reality.html Christopher Loring Knowles]]'''

->Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
-->--'''Scott Westerfeld''' tweet

->I suspect that if NASA had claimed that we traveled to the moon based on technology that was secretly left behind by the ancient astronauts, no one would have doubted the landing.
-->--'''[[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/15/1363225/-Eureka-My-earthshaking-new-study-reveals-the-root-cause-of-the-profoundly-stupid?detail=email Susan Grigsby]]''', "Eureka! My earthshaking new study reveals the root cause of the profoundly stupid"

->A truther is a rabid devotee of horseshit—someone who can take any imperfection in a tragic narrative and construct [[ChewbaccaDefense an iron mountain of garbage]] from it. And they'll probably end up dooming us all.
-->--'''[[http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/see-what-were-really-missing-here-is-the-vaccine-truth-1641735183 Drew Magary]]''', "A Field Guide to [[{{Eagleland}} American]] Truthers"

->...there’s also just a latent mistrust for the governmental structures, which is especially true in my city, which has been in the throes of institutionalized racism and economic collapse for a very long time. But most conspiracy theorists I’ve interacted with are not victims to that as they seem to come from a [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan certain level of comfort.]] I think that comfort caters to conspiracy because they’re comfortable enough to think about things and realize how fucked up they are, but instead of recognizing real causes they create an impossibly malicious master plan to explain it all.
-->--'''[[http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/media/214739-illuminati-conspiracy-news-hidden Gabriella Garcia]]''', "I hid Illuminati graphics in news broadcasts [[BitingTheHandHumor because I was bored]]"

->The powers that be are in fact watching you at all hours and tracking your every move, but only because they're hoping you'll slip on the ice and [[HarmlessVillain drop your groceries again]].
--> -- '''''TheOnion'''''

->A more likely theory is that, given the number of flowers thrown at her hearse during the funeral, Diana was [[TheDogWasTheMastermind murdered by florists]] who wanted to boost sales.
-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki''''' on Diana of Wales

->Yes, all the psychiatrists and psychologists of the world and banded together to [[HeteronormativeCrusader invent a fake condition]] just to rob you of your precious titty supply. Good catch.
-->--'''''[[http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/40195 Sadly, No]]'''''

->"Kloo2yoo,” identified as a site moderator, writes that there is “undeniable proof” of an international feminist conspiracy involving the United Nations, the Obama Administration and others, aimed at [[StrawFeminist demonizing men.]]
-->--The '''Southern Poverty Law Center''' on {{Reddit}}

->So, to wrap things up, there’s only one conclusion one can draw from all this top quality research. TV’s Jimmy Savile is [[Really700YearsOld an immortal energy vampire]] who’s been active since the beginning of time [[IHaveManyNames under a multitude of names]], from [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Vlad the Impaler to the Knights Templar]]. Sometime in the sixties, he was summoned to our time in a ceremony by [[RockMeAsmodeus Mick Jagger and the Beatles]], using the arcane, Satanic wisdom of Aleister Crowley, from where he [[EatsBabies procured children]] for the elite, via the Leeds [[{{Hellgate}} Hell Mouth]], which acted as an energy portal for the Jewish, Masonic vampires that enslave our world. It’s pretty obvious when you look at the facts.
-->-- '''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/jimmy-savile-and-david-icke-all-the-pieces-matter/ Stuart Millard]]''', "Jimmy Saville and David Icke - All the Pieces Matter"

->If you were to believe everything you read on the Internet, you'd think that every celebrity is an ambulatory heap of fake body parts mind-controlled by [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama President Obama]], who is a shapeshifting reptoid from a faraway star system (plus, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having an affair with Beyoncé]])."
-->--'''''Jezebel''''', [[http://jezebel.com/31-celebrity-conspiracy-theories-ranked-1570845261 "31 Celebrity Conspiracy Theories, Ranked"]]

->Any misplaced pixel on a photo is proof of Photoshop, any misspoken word in a news report is evidence of a cover-up... one guy posts that the Sandy Hook massacre was done by the same squad that 'began their evil twisted careers with the faked death and witness protection escape for [[ElvisLives Elvis]],' and ''[[PoesLaw no one disagrees with him.]]''
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21341_5-ways-every-conspiracy-theory-makes-world-worse.html "5 Ways Every Conspiracy Theory 'Makes Sense'"]]

->"Why do you hide the fact that you are a Freemason whose mission is to get people as far away from God as possible? You know God exists and Christianity is the truth, which is why you always talk against Christianity. You are one of the many antichrists, you satanic dog. Hell is awaiting you, you little Masonic cunt."
-->--'''Creator/RichardDawkins''' reads his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421828030 fan mail]]

->The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening. Nobody is in control. [[{{ComicBook/Watchmen}} The world is rudderless...]]
-->--'''Creator/AlanMoore'''

->Built into the internet is a system for creating cults. So, for example, if I had a blog, which I don't, and I put up something which is a slightly novel and maybe somewhat objectionable interpretation of an event--the Bush administration is trying to poison the water in Boston or something, to pick at random--tomorrow somebody else would say, 'That's right, but [[SnowballLie it's worse than you think]]', and pretty soon you would develop a cult of people proving that the Bush administration is trying to [[OmnicidalManiac poison the world's water]]. It's extremely easy to get caught up in that kind of cultlike behavior, which has a cocoon property not similar to other religious cults, immune to evidence, immune to argument.
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''', 2007

->All of this is pure bunk and is no more important than the fact that my first, middle, and last name [[MarkOfTheBeast all have 6 letters.]]
-->--'''George Lauren''', IBM programmer and avatar of The Dark One

->It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to [[NeverMyFault someone's malignity.]]
-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->I never knew anyone that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
-->--'''David Hume'''

->It is ironic that [[{{Eagleland}} a nation which had never experienced a coup d'état]] should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "Paranoid Politics"

->The invasion transformed the country. Reality was replaced with a wild and self-serving fiction, a legitimization of the worst prejudices of the masses and paranoia of the outside world. The secret interior world arrayed against Argentina became one of [[StringTheory strange cabals]], [[GreedyJew worldwide Jewry]] trotted out again to be [[TheWarOnStraw beaten like a dead horse]], vast subterranean webs that had as their focus [[EspeciallyZoidberg the destruction of the Argentine people.]]
-->--'''Chris Hedges''' on UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar, ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''

->Side by side with the official mythology of a beleaguered government threatened by riots, demonstrations, and unmotivated, irrational assassinations of public figures, a popular mythology has taken shape in the last thirty years that sees government as a conspiracy against the people themselves.
-->--'''Christopher Lasch''', ''The Life of Kennedy’s Death''

->In 1966, 36% of the respondents in a Gallup poll believed that Oswald acted alone. The percent was 11% in both the 1976 and 1983 Gallup polls and 13% in a 1988 CBS poll. This increase in belief in the conspiracy has taken place despite the fact that the accumulation of evidence has increasingly supported the lone assassin theory.
-->--'''Ted Goertzel''', ''Belief in Conspiracy Theories''

->These people love the truth, they just [[IRejectYourReality hate facts.]]
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', on Obama "Birthers".

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->"he whole point of the Copernican theory is to get rid of Jesus by saying there is no up and no down... the spinning ball thing just makes the whole Bible a big joke.

-->--'''[[http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/media/214739-illuminati-conspiracy-news-hidden Gabriella Garcia]]''', "I hid Illuminati graphics in news [[BitingTheHandHumor broadcasts because I was bored]]"

-->--'''NinaHagen'''

-->--''{{Series/Angel}}'', "The Magic Bullet"

-->--'''Chakotay''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Voyager Conspiracy"

->'''Fred:''' So, you don't worry that it's possible for someone to [[ManchurianAgent send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values, and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to little more than a mindless meat puppet?]]\\

->''"You've uncovered some interesting facts. But your interpretation is far-fetched. These are random incidents. Granted, some of them are hard to explain, but there's no conspiracy here."''

->Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

->Its adherents see themselves as the keeper of a hidden truth that [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness “they” don’t want you to know about]], a “truth” that it desperately wants everyone to know. No facts, no science can sway them, and when one of their prophets is found to have behaved unethically, to have had [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste massive conflicts of interest]], and possibly even to have falsified research, it’s all part of a plot by The Man to keep them down.
-->--'''[[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/02/01/the-martyrdom-of-st-andy/ Orac]]''', "The Martyrdom of St. Andy"

->Mad Mel wasn’t drugged with Jew-hating pills, [[HanlonsRazor he’s just a natural born cunt!]]

->There is of course a dark side to [[AuthorAppeal all the conspiracy elements]] of their films, which is that at least one of them believes in them for real. [Roberto] Orci is a 9/11 truther who previously tweeted about the collapse of WTC 7 (just, you know, asking questions), and on the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, he told his followers to look out for 'evidence of Government drills' in Boston (coded language for suggesting the attack was a '[[FalseFlagOperation false flag]]' operation by our own government).
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Kurtzman_Orci_Directing_Star_Trek_3_Venom.aspx "Kurtzman and Orci to direct (and ruin) Venom, Star Trek 3"]]

->Do I really need to go into the politics? It is some of the most inane, delusional, contradictory nonsense ever spewed out on screen. It’s bad when I’m a liberal and [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn you are making me want to vote for Nixon]]. Basically the evil “government” is responsible for all evils in the world short of throwing babies in a woodchipper (and that’s only because we don’t know about it yet due to the government keeping it hush hush).
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/the-trial-of-billy-jack-tom-laughlin-1974/ on]] ''The Trial of Billy Jack''

->'''Chris''': The fact that Magneto’s plan isn’t to kill people, but to turn them into mutants...Given the metaphor that we’re working with, it’s like Magneto has a laser that turns you gay.\\
'''Matt''': Be careful. (Matt) Drudge is going to pick this up if we say too much more about ''Secret Project Gayzer.''
-->--Chris Sims and Matt Wilson on the ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' film series

->'''Laura''': Neal Adams has actually found a way to shoehorn his Expanding Earth conspiracy theory into a ''Batman'' comic. [[SoBadItsGood Sometimes, dreams do come true.]]\\
'''David''': Given that Adams has been pretty vocal about his theories for quite some time, it’s quite a thing to see it play a direct role in something as notable as a ''Batman'' story. We also have to recognize that apparently [[BeneathTheEarth the inner earth]] was like [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale a ten minute walk from the Batcave]].
-->--'''[[http://comicsalliance.com/batman-odyssey-neal-adams-review/ Laura Hudson]]''', "The Complete and Utter Insanity of ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''"

->'''Chakotay''': You've uncovered some interesting facts. But your interpretation is far-fetched. These are random incidents. Granted, some of them are hard to explain, but there's no conspiracy here.\\
'''Seven:''' Stardate 51008! Captain Janeway allows Kes to leave Voyager. Neelix told me that Kes had suspicions about the Caretaker. Was the captain trying to silence her? Stardate 51462! The Doctor's program is transmitted to a Starfleet vessel on the outskirts of the Alpha Quadrant. An attempt by the Captain to contact Earth... or a secret communiqué informing Starfleet of her progress? Stardate 50984! Janeway forges an alliance with the Borg! Stardate 51762! A cease-fire with the Hirogen! Stardate 52861! A non-aggression pact with the Terkellians! She called each incident "diplomacy." I believe she was trying to establish a tactical infrastructure in the Delta Quadrant. Over the past five years, Captain Janeway has [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking altered course 263 times]] in the name of exploration. In reality, she was mapping the region and collecting strategic data regarding--\\
'''Chakoty:''' I get the point.
-->--''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Voyager Conspiracy"

->There are, of course, [[ShownTheirWork good conspiracy analysts]] and bad conspiracy analysts, just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of "paranoia." First, [[YouFailLogicForever he stops with the cui bono]]; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so. (Perhaps the wackiest example of this was the British journalist Douglas Reed who, seeing that the result of Hitler's policies was the destruction of Germany, concluded, without further evidence, that therefore Hitler was a conscious agent of external forces who deliberately set out to ruin Germany.) Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy. Instead of seeing that there are several power blocs trying to gain control of [[TheGovernment government]], sometimes in conflict and sometimes in alliance, he has to assume - again without evidence - that a small group of men controls them all, and only seems to send them into conflict.

->It was like I stepped into another universe. The stories, the blogs, the information. There were mothers who said their children became autistic, developed epilepsy, or even died after receiving a vaccine. It didn’t stop there. I heard tall tales about how doctors got paid premiums to vaccinate our children, and that the medical community is purposely poisoning everyone for every reason under the sun, including population control, money, and even just “[[ForTheEvulz because they’re evil]].” Horror stories about ingredient lists, toxins, and mercury were spread around like candy.\\\
I felt like I had discovered this wealth of information that the world around me didn’t know. '''[[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory I was Charlie Bucket and I had the golden ticket to keeping my family healthy.]]''' I vowed to never vaccinate my unborn child.

->Human beings fill in blanks with imagination, and when faced with superior force those blanks are invariably painted black...Because the mind-killing virus of Fundamentalism (spiritual or secular) still infests the world of the paranormal and Conspiratainment spheres, too many people who don't dismiss the UFO phenomenon out of hand paint it all black. This is an inevitability based in ignorance and fear. Fear is an important evolutionary mechanism and fearing what we don't know is based in our survival instinct. But it can also metastisize into religions of fear. Even the [[NewAgeRetroHippie starry-eyed crystal-kissers]] seem increasingly likely to lapse into these kneejerk fear responses these days, thanks in large part to David Icke.

->In 1968 a book by a German hotelier took the country by storm. ''Chariot of the Gods?'', by Erich von Daniken claimed that Earth was visited by ancient astronauts from an unknown planet who lent a helping hand to early man before traveling back into the sky. His books became international best-sellers despite [[AssPull the absence of the faintest taint of science or any apparent connection to reality.]]\\\
They were so popular here in the states, that in 1973, NBC, which should have known better, broadcast a documentary, ''In Search of Ancient Astronauts'', narrated by Creator/RodSerling. Based on a German documentary that shared the title of von Daniken's book, it boasted an appearance by astrophysicist CarlSagan (which is why I watched it on YouTube the other day). His single line was one declaring that [[OnlySaneMan there was no evidence for von Daniken's theory.]]\\\
Within a couple of years, the Flat Earth Society claimed that the United States had never landed on the moon, that the whole thing was filmed on a Hollywood sound stage and this was proven by the lack of dust when the lunar landing module touched down on the moon. Although led by the Flat Earth Society, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer which was a real thing]], the conspiracy spread across the nation without the benefit of the internet or FoxNews. People studied photographs that they claimed showed the American flag waving in a breeze that should not have been present on the moon. And stars. There were no stars. Clearly a sound stage. NASA had to issue a statement in 1977 (re-issued in 2001), that clearly stated, "Yes. Astronauts did land on the moon."\\\
So, we were willing to believe that ancient astronauts landed repeatedly on the Earth, but we were not willing to believe that man had reached the moon. It had to be the PSSEVP at work. I suspect that if NASA had claimed that we traveled to the moon based on technology that was secretly left behind by the ancient astronauts, no one would have doubted the landing.

->There were no truthers back in the 20th century. I grew up in the Golden Age of Kennedy Assassination Conspiracies, but the word 'truther' was never used to describe Creator/OliverStone or any of the other folks who decried the Magic Bullet theory. {{Conspiracy theorist}}s were just that, and nothing more.\\\
But the advent of the internet has allowed conspiracy theorists to blossom—to become [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness even more deeply immersed]] in their own version of the truth. You can find 'proof' of pretty much anything online if you're willing to look and you are strong of faith. At the dawn of the 21st century, conspiracy theorists acquired the power to link up and buttress one another. You no longer need to feel alone with your birther theory. You can find support. You can find validation.\\\
And this is how the truthering movement came into being. The modern truther is more than a simple nutjob conspiracy theorist. Being a truther means believing your truth to such an extent that you shun anyone who dares question it. Let the SHEEPLE out there think that two airplanes knocked down the Twin Towers. A truther knows better. The rest of you are so naïve, so easily led astray. Your wrongness is almost comical. I LAUGH AT YOUR IGNORANCE HAHAHAHAHA I BET YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN ''LOOSE CHANGE'' YET. A truther is a rabid devotee of horseshit—someone who can take any imperfection in a tragic narrative and construct [[ChewbaccaDefense an iron mountain of garbage]] from it. And they'll probably end up dooming us all.

->If there is a lesson to be learned from engaging with the looniverse, it must be that there exists nary a phenomenon that has not been the subject matter for a conspiracy theory (no wonder, really, given the human psychological proclivity towards confirmation bias, and the self-affirming nature of conspiracy theories). Among the more outré subject matters is death. Yes, that’s right. The claim that humans die is a conspiracy, or so say believers in transcommunication (they do claim, however, that ''“research suggests …”'') ...The Butlers are apparently currently the leading experts on the phenomenon after [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath the, uh, death of the founder]], the clinically delusional Sarah Estep.

->As I have pointed out on numerous occasions before, both here and elsewhere, the anti-vaccine movement has much in common with cults. It believes, despite all scientific evidence, [[ScienceIsBad that vaccines cause autism and many other chronic health conditions.]] Its adherents see themselves as the keeper of a hidden truth that [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness “they” don’t want you to know about]], a “truth” that it desperately wants everyone to know. No facts, no science can sway them, and when one of their prophets is found to have behaved unethically, to have had [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste massive conflicts of interest]], and possibly even to have falsified research, it’s all part of a plot by The Man to keep them down. That is why, as necessary as it is for the GMC to have ruled against Andrew Wakefield, I know that [[KarmaHoudini it will not stop him from plying his trade on children]] in Texas, and I especially know that it will only feed his cult of personality by adding martyr to his list of attributes in their eyes. It will not stop him from raking in money hand over fist or Thoughtful House from [[FakeCharity racking up a huge war chest that do nothing to help autistic children.]]

->Yes, all the psychiatrists and psychologists of the world and banded together to [[HeteronormativeCrusader invent a fake condition]] just to rob you of your precious titty supply. Good catch...They’re all in on the conspiracy don’t you see? The doctors. The lawmakers. The fake trans people. The newspapers. They’re all in on it. All to make me think that my weenus doesn’t protect me from the terrifying femininity that risks to rob me of my manly spiritual essence. You got to watch out for them. They’re all out to get me.\\\
Also wingnuts [[TheyCalledMeMad claiming other people are deluded]]. Funniest thing ever or '''funniest thing EVER?'''

->The quacked out Quaids should really be speaking to a highly-skilled team of mental health professionals carrying trays filled with assorted meds, but for some reason their lawyers let them speak to ABC News instead. Randy and Evi Quaid once again put an aluminum foil cap on our heads by telling us how they believe there’s a vicious conspiracy against Hollywood actors!!! Hide yo [[Music/BritneySpears Brit Brits]]! Hide yo Creator/MelGibson[=s=]! Hide yo Creator/LindsayLohan[=s=], because [[Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation Cousin Eddie]] thinks [[Film/{{Ghost}} they are all in danger, girl.]]\\\
Speaking from their hiding place in Canada, Randy and Evi said there’s a mafia out there who is destroying and murdering the innocent virgin angels of Hollywood one by one. They don’t think Creator/HeathLedger died of an overdose. They believe he was murdered for ad dollars (blame [[Series/MadMen Don Draper]])! DUN DUN DUN! They also believe that Mad Mel Gibson isn’t an anti-Semitic, racist leather duffel bag of Hitler shit. They think that Mad Mel was drugged by the [[KosherNostra Hollywood whackers]].\\\
Um. Randy and Evi need to adjust the wire hangers they stick in their ears to spy on the Hollywood mafia, because I’m pretty sure something got lost in transmission. Mad Mel wasn’t drugged with Jew-hating pills, [[HanlonsRazor he’s just a natural born cunt!]]

->If you were to believe everything you read on the Internet, you'd think that every celebrity is an ambulatory heap of fake body parts mind-controlled by [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama President Obama]], who is a shapeshifting reptoid from a faraway star system (plus, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having an affair with Beyoncé]]). It is a lot to sort through. But, you know, it's important to have an active imaginary life and/or a game plan if the reptilian overlords do decide to stop hiding cryptic symbols in [[WillSmith Willow Smith]] videos and get to openly subduing the world population in the name of Satan."

->[[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian]] gets a mic. And I quote, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMpiDS_F1hE this is what he says:]]\\\
''"Are any of you brave enough to fight me now? You thrive off of intimidation! My vibrational frequencies are too high for that! You thrive off of fear! My Zero-point is a great distance from fear! What you are is low-vibrational reptilians! What '''''I AM''''', is '''''[[AnswersToTheNameOfGod A DESCENDED GOD!]]'''''"''\\\
''Commercial...'' Brian, what you are is a descended testicle. Just cut a normal promo saying, "Oh you think you're tough, prove you're tough, fight me." That's all you had to say, ''Brian''...And then Brian runs away. [[MilesGloriosus Our brave hero who is a descended god]] runs away.
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g7r-xRBtKI#t=2750s on]] ''[[Wrestling/{{TNA}} TNA Impact]]'' (9.16.10)

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->''"THIS IS GOVERNMENTS DOING ALONG WITH THE CEDA'S SHITS!"''\\
''"[[YouMakeMeSic LANGUAGE]], CRACKHEAD!"''
-->--[[BathroomStallGraffiti Competing graffiti]], ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''

->Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large...Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."
-->--'''The Patriots''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''

->The Last Battalion is an elite unit which helped [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Fuhrer]] escape in secret! An insane army with [[StupidJetpackHitler cutting-edge technology]] and [[{{Ghostapo}} a powerful relic which absorbed Christ's blood,]] bent on enacting the Fuhrer's grudge! It's all in this book... [[MayanDoomsday Everything they're doing is in accordance with the Oracle of Maia]] in the ''In Lak'ech''! The Oracle of Maia was left to us by [[AncientAstronauts the Pleiades aliens who gifted mankind with civilization...]] It's a message entrusted to us by the Maians! Did you really think we evolved from apes on our own!? The answers aren't in history books! How did man come so far, so fast!? There's evidence all over the world of their presence in ancient times! It proves that mankind was guided by an ancient race! ...Underneath the netherworld is where the Maians sleep... [[{{Mayincatec}} The starship Xibalba is here!]] All sorts of civilizations originated there... But the ancient Maians that thrived here died during an intergalactic civil war... The victors were the Bolontiku race that controls Xibalba... [[ToServeMan When the Bolontiku thoughtforms take physical bodies, they will bring destruction to us all!]] That's why we can't go public with this!
-->--'''Maya Okamura''', ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'' [[note]]:All of these statements are [[PoesLaw taken from real-life conspiracy theorists]].[[/note]]

->'''Leo Gold''': The entire executive branch is hand-picked. Nineteen of the last twenty-three U.S. presidents have been members of the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission is financed by the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. Don’t tell me--\\
'''JC Denton''': That’s a think-tank. Anyone can become a member.\\
'''Leo Gold''': But not everyone does. That’s why they call it the 'secret government'.
-->--''VideoGame/DeusEx''

->Deb, listen to me Deb. They're at it again and people have got to know. They've got to know because they don't know; they won't report this stuff on the news because they own the news! Conspiracy? This goes beyond conspiracy, okay? There is no word for something as devious and secret as this, you understand? People need to hear this; they need to know the real story! Alright, [[AsYouKnow as we all know]] the Americans established a Moon base back in the [[TheSeventies late seventies]], that's no secret. But what most people don't know is that they have been conducting a dig. Not for resources, but for artifacts. Well, it's no coincidence that the Chinese have started conducting space missions. You know why? I'll tell you why. The reason is because the Chinese are trying to stop the Americans from finding an ancient space probe send by the Beta-Centaurians. And why? Because the Beta-Centaurians are giving space technology to the Chinese to get back at the Andromedans - a.k.a. TheGreys - for giving space technology to the Americans in TheFifties. The American government's been putting more money into space. Don't you see what's happening? I can't believe I'm the only one that's figured it out! Am I the only person alive that can see what's going on? It's because the Andromedans and the Betas are going to be fighting their war in this galaxy through us, Deb. And the American people, the people of Earth, you people, cannot let this happen! It's Mu versus {{Atlantis}} all over again!\\
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Deb. I'm about to reveal something that... I'm putting my life on the line. But the people, the people of this city and this country and this planet, they have the right to know this, do you understand? This is serious. There are a lot of organizations who would do anything in their power to keep this a secret. Deb, Deb, this is really serious now, can I finish? All right. Everyone knows they've got cameras at every stoplight so the government can keep tabs on our comings and goings. But did you know that they then sold access to their data bases to TheIlluminati, who has been using that information to compile a list of the most frequently traveled routes and then opening new locations of their well-known chain of coffee houses in the most profitable locations? And did you also know that they use those funds to suppress fusion and solar power? Well they, the Illuminati, control all the world's energy, and, because they monitor all of our energy usage, they can tell who is not watching television and therefore know who is not receiving the subliminal messages that they send to keep the sheep putting their money in banks away from their secret headquarters, a.k.a. Wyoming. As a matter of fact, and again I shouldn't be talking about this, but I believe that it's everybody's right to know that recycling is a myth. All that they do with those bottles and cans is [[ParanoiaFuel collect DNA samples from your saliva, so that they can clone you]]. And train your clone to [[KillAndReplace assassinate you and assume your identity]], should you go poking your nose into the whole global warming business.\\
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Deb, this is it! This time I stumbled across something that is bigger than anything you could possibly imagine. A threat to the entire human race's existence. Deb, nothing can prepare the world for this. This is the biggest story in the history of humanity ever! Ever, Deb. How I found this out I can't say, but I'm risking my life to tell the world this. Are you prepared for this? People of Los Angeles, {{vampire}}s walk among us. Hear me out, Deb. Vampires are among us and have been since the dawn of time. And Los Angeles... Well, there's more vampires per person here than anywhere else in the world. People are killed by vampires all the time, but [[WrittenByTheWinners their secret vampire society covers it up]]. Who blew up that warehouse in Santa Monica? Vampires! What happened to the crew of the Elizabeth Dane? Vampires! Want to know what happened to that sarcophagus that disappeared? Vampires took it. The prince of vampires to be more specific. He wants to use it against a league of other vampires that have been trying to get a foothold in our city. And get this! There could be an even older vampire in the sarcophagus. An ancient super-vampire! It's the truth, Deb. TheUndead are all around us. We need to rise up and destroy our evil vampire overlords before it's too late!
-->-- '''Gomez''', ''[[ShowWithinAShow Deb of Night]]'', ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. [[spoiler:The last "theory" is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight pretty much a summary of the plot of the game]].]]

->'''Zeke''': "Look, I'm being serious man, now DARPA is the mother-load of black-ops crap. If she's in with those clowns, you better watch out, son."\\
'''Cole''': "Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Santa Claus shot J.F.K, now where are those drinks?"
--> -- ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}''

->''Lovely woman, [[HMTheQueen the Queen.]] For an [[TheReptilians ancient lizard posing as a human]], anyway. But I tell you, she knows the score. It's the government that didn't want anyone to know about [[AncientConspiracy Dee's prophecy]], not Her Maj. I hope they get her away to India or something. Their climate's better for reptiles, anyway."
-->--'''The Prepper''', ''Videogame/ZombiU''

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->A steady flow of novels and movies based loosely on the assassination, not to mention the endless preoccupation with [[JohnFKennedy the Kennedys]] in publications like the ''National Enquirer'', has helped to maintain popular interest in this event and to reinforce conspiracy theories...Side by side with the official mythology of a beleaguered government threatened by riots, demonstrations, and unmotivated, irrational assassinations of public figures, a popular mythology has taken shape in the last thirty years that sees government as a conspiracy against the people themselves.

->One feature of denialism is the tendency to think of the denialist position as beleaguered, and under attack and in a minority that has to stave off the assaults of the vast wrong-thinking majority. As a consequence, those involved in denialism often, in the other justifications for their position, declare their strong allegiance to the principle of free speech. Interestingly, then, denialists often set themselves up as plucky underdogs, battling for their right to speak the truth against a tide of misinformation and, as often as not, conspiracies aimed at keeping them silent.
-->--'''Seth C. Kalichman''', ''Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy''

->[[TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]] is the Most Dangerous Woman in the World!
-->--'''David J. Stewart''', ''Jesus-is-Saviour''

->What hard evidence is there that [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] doesn’t want Ebola in America?
-->--'''Creator/AdamBaldwin''', [[https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/518293964571418624 3.10.14 Tweet]]

->Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
-->--'''Scott Westerfeld''' tweet

->It is an interesting world we live in, where you can tell a group of people that you made a crop circle with a rope, even show them how you did it, and they still insist that an unknown paranormal intelligence did it. You can tell them that two plus two equals four and they'll insist that it's five.
-->-- '''Brian Dunning''' of ''Podcast/{{Skeptoid}}''

->I don’t think Bush could plan a bowl of cereal.
-->--'''Dylan Avery''', former 9-11 Truther

''"Are any of you brave enough to fight me now? You thrive off of intimidation! My vibrational frequencies are too high for that! You thrive off of fear! My Zero Point is a great distance from fear! What you are is low-vibrational reptilians! What '''''I AM''''', is '''''[[AnswersToTheNameOfGod A DESCENDED GOD!]]'''''"''\\\