What conspiracy theory really bugs you the most?

[AgiTitor]

The is no shortage of oil, there is a shortage of cheap oil. The cost of producing Iraq oil is like $5 per barrel, maybe less. The cost of producting oil by fracking or from oil sands is $70+ per barrel. The same applies to off shore oil, drilling offshore oil wells is extremely expensive.

And thus a conspiracy to gain control over wells where cost of production was lower makes more sense. We produce a lot of oil but the methods are expensive. Staging a conspiracy to cause an invasion is a good excuse to get American muscle into countries where our mere presence alters the market - that's pretty devious. I'm not sure if I'm fully on-board but I do have a bit more respect for the theory now. Thanks for the summation.

 

 

[mr_paradox]

I'm not sure if I'm fully on-board but I do have a bit more respect for the theory now. Thanks for the summation.

I am saying it is a possibility. What is the saying ? Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. So was it actually planned ? Or was it just a case of someone taking advantage of an opportunity. There is a good chance it might be the second.

 

I like to think of myself as an armchair scientist, a scientist should look at all possibilities. The should then attempt to disprove the possibility. So for my theory, there is a motive. But there is no smoking gun, so a smoking gun would be something like a wikileaks document, proof that some cabal actually planned it.

 

 

[DulceBASS]

Pretty much all of them.

 

It's not that I think none of them are true because there's definitely secret things going on but they annoy me because people often seem to latch onto conspiracy theories for the wrong reasons. People claim to have unearthed the truth but in reality they just latched onto a position that reinforces their worldview. You see things like this all over the political spectrum. Instead of educating one's self about what's going on in the world, people flock to biased sources that tell them what they want to hear so conspiracy theory discussions end up being arguments about people's ideologies rather than what actually happened.

 

For example, let's take a hypothetical False Flag incident: a shooter kills a bunch of people at a mall during Black Friday. Within minutes of this happening, someone like Alex Jones is gonna say Obama did it to take away your guns. Does Obama? I don't know, there's just no possible way to make this claim within minutes of the event happening since we don't know anything about it. We go from trying to figure out what happened at the shooting to arguing about gun control. Instead of figuring out the truth, anti-gun control activists and pro-gun control activists argue about their ideological differences. While my False Flag example might sound like I'm playing the right wing is the main culprit of this annoying tendency, I gotta point out that there's leftists who do the same thing about GMOs in food.