The government is using chem-trails to kill us. I meet people all the time spreading this nonsense. I do not believe in conspiracy theories. There is too much to enjoy in life. I cannot spend my time being paranoid. Also, the group of super evil best friends known as the illuminati. That one is my favorite.

I tend to think that Deep State might exist. I've also had many problems with the JFK murder that was so conveniently explained away and solved so quickly. Too many things there do not fit.

My cats are plotting to kill me in my sleep

Yeah I’m not much like conspiracies

Here are the stupid conspiracies my mom believes in:
-9/11 was a false flag
-Sandy Hook was a false flag
-The CIA killed JFK
-Chemtrails are real
-The Holocaust was exaggerated
-The Illuminati is real
-Hillary Clinton has ordered the assassinations of dozens of people
-The Moon Landing was hoaxed
-The cure for cancer is being suppressed
-Hitler fled to South America
-The CIA killed Martin Luther King Jr.

There are probably more I'm forgetting.

I believe all those conspiracy theorists are out to get us!

I've known some deluded people.

I can't say I "believe" in these, yet I don't know that I disbelieve either.

"Conspiracy" and "theory" aren't one word. We KNOW, beyond any doubt there have been conspiracies in the past. We KNOW there are unscrupulous people in powerful positions who would not hesitate to deceive, cheat, harm, or kill others to preserve or gain more power.

The question then, is not "why do you believe one?", but why are you certain NONE of these are true?

Example: I'm pretty sure we've been to the moon, yet I can't understand why, since the 911 plane wreck site in PA was cluttered with bodies, papers, luggage, seats, wing parts, engines, the outer layers of the plane, scorched ground, yet there was no trace of ANY of that at the pentagon, not even any trace of the wings hitting the building. ... Go look at the pix.

I'm NOT saying anything about that, but I've never heard a satisfactory explanation either.

Yes.

I try not to underestimate the stupidity or perfidy of my fellow humans. They often amaze me nevertheless.

I think that most "conspiracy theory" is simply stupid shit that distracts from the real issues. Or is there to discredit some one or something.

Real conspiracy exists, that is no reason to believe some of the nonsense out there.

From wikipedia...

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" was a phrase made popular by Carl Sagan. However, Laplace writes: "The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness."[1] Also, David Hume wrote in 1748: "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence", and "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."[2] and Marcello Truzzi says: "An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof."[3]

I am a little bit disappointed in those of you that believe this stuff. I really expected a bit more skepticism around here.

A chap I used to know was a great believer that the moon landings never happened. He also believed that dinosaurs never existed and that the fossil record had been falsified for reasons he could never explain.

My ex-wife believes that Israel was behind 9/11 and that the Rothschilds control pretty much everything - fairly shocking considering she most certainly isn't an antisemite, but it just goes to show how pervasive some antisemitic myths are.

A colleague, as I've mentioned on this website before, believes Mohammad built the Great Pyramid with help from aliens.

Other. I believe that the 1% is trying to keep the middle class miserably poor. Oh, wait, is that a conspiracy or is that really true?

I strongly believe that the 2000 election was stolen by Bush but that isn't really a conspiracy theory now that I think of it. It's practically an accepted fact.

I have a neighbor...wow is all I can say about him. heh heh But I do believe JFK was ACCIDENTALLY shot a second, and fatal time, by a secret service agent, from a follow car after the shots of Oswald.

No to all.

Silly conspiracy theories all.

I don't believe in any of that nonsense and I truly worry about people in my life who do.

I have known people who think 9/11 was planned by our government, and that chemtrails are real, but not contrails. DOH!

I've always thought there was more to the Kennedy assassination than they've let on.

All conspiracy theories are the products of troubled, paranoid minds.

No. None. Utterly crazy ridiculousness.

I firmly believe that Dick Cheney is an alien or one of those T-800 terminators (the early ones, not the cool liquid metal T-1000). Those that believe KNOW that wasn't a heart transplant he received, but instead a replacement power cell (non-tesla model). We have our eye on you Cheney, watch out!

Don't believe in any of these. But there are conspiracies. Russian's involvement in our country constitutes a very broad multi-pronged attack, including cyber espionage & hacking, social media propaganda campaign, direct collusion with Trump's people, and illegal money laundering to finance GOP interests, including the NRA

Buildings just don,t fall that way when hit by a plane or planes and the 3rd one fell by it,s self later on..and my list goes on and on

Do people tell the truth always? No. Do governments, corporations, the military, religions...always tell the truth? No. Is public opinion ever deliberately manipulated? Yes.

'Conspiracy Theory' has become a blanket term to mock and discredit anyone that seeks to draw attention to an issue.
For example, when we in the west discuss 9.11 we talk about whether it was a false flag attack etc. We rarely talk about it in terms of why were those young men so disturbed by our respective countries foreign policies that they were prepared to carry out such a horrific act.
Noam Chomsky has quite a bit to say about manipulation of public opinion.

I didn't vote, but maybe I should vote other. I think conspiracy theorist's are conspiring to confuse the world.