CrashRiot t1_itlfl17 wrote
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Honestly it’s a lot more complex than that. It’s true that most conspiracy theorists are somewhat delusional or misinformed, but some do actually turn out to be true.
For example, during prohibition if someone stood up and said, “I got sick from drinking alcohol. The government is poisoning me!”, most of us would assume they were a nuts conspiracy theorist.
We would be wrong. The government purposefully increased methanol without notice in industrial alcohols to get people to stop drinking. It killed up to 10000 people.
If in the 50s and 60s someone were to say, “the CIA has been performing mind experiments on me!”, again, we’d often consider them crazy conspiracy theorists.
We would be wrong. This became known as MKULTRA, perhaps the most infamous “conspiracy theory” in US history.
Point is, it’s not always delusional. Most of the time? Almost certainly. But definitely there are multiple “true” conspiracies.
hiS_oWn t1_itlr0u7 wrote
Except the government did so openly and with warning labels on all alcohol poisoned in such a manner. This is as much a conspiracy theory as the onion article "man discovers link between government and NASA".
orangutanDOTorg t1_itlxskf wrote
I missed that article. Sounds like a good one
hiS_oWn t1_ito0eso wrote
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DeepSpaceNebulae t1_itlodex wrote
To be clear, they publicly mandated industrial alcohols, i.e. those not for human consumption, have additives . While not exactly good, it’s not like they were poisoning drinking alcohol or did it secretly as it was new regulation for public companies that were making those industrial alcohols
The number of deaths is also impossible to calculate as even un-modified industrial alcohol can cause deaths when improperly distilled by bootleggers
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dustygultch t1_itlkur3 wrote
What was your intent with posting this? Are you agreeing or disagreeing with who you responded to. The man most definitely is delusional
AtsignAmpersat t1_itlqmsq wrote
They’re just going after a blanket statement because of the very rare occurrences of conspiracy theorist being right? I don’t know who the conspiracy theorist even was in their examples. It’s also entirely possible to be a delusional conspiracy theorist and also right occasionally.
This is Reddit. When you say an absolute, someone will chime in with a argument with “well actually”.
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