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How do you feel? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

All these were once theories

  • McDonalds ice cream machine failures and repair contracts.

  • Phones listening to conversations and giving adverts.

  • Tobacco company cancer denials

  • Oil company climate change denials denial.

  • Banks fixing lending rates.

  • Banks lending to drug cartels.

  • Tuskegee

  • Operation Snow White

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't know anything about the first or last items in this list, but I don't see anything else crazy on there. "Conspiracy theory" strictly would refer to any of your list when unproven, however if you look at the use of that term in reality, it's far more often used to describe an apeshit theory like the us government planning 9/11 or the earth being flat. Something like those, you need to ignore several obvious basic arguments against them to even entertain them.

    Edit: rereading your original comment, it sounds like we are both saying the same thing really.

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