I recently was looking up conspiracy theories out of morbid curiosity, and realized we don't have a thread for it, sans the WTF thread. So I'm making one.
Normal rules apply. No bickering, etc. This is a place to discuss these theories, the thought and science behind them, and their refutations or things that debunk them. It is not for attacks on personal beliefs. Anyway, onwards. Also in the vein of conversation, alien stuff (abduction, ancient, what have you), urban legends, and cryptid discussion.
Please no personally oriented conspiracies, keep it to the big shadowy global stuff.
Sharing of personal experiences in regards to the most recent topic is acceptable with the caveat that people may try to refute or dissect your account of events.
Keep refutation and dissection of such accounts clinical and entirely non-confrontational.
So for example, if we're talking about Bigfoot and I think I saw him once, it's fine to bring that personal account up, but I need to be aware that people might suggest it could have been a bear.
I'd like to start by echoing XKCD and saying that the Illuminati Semitic shadowy NWO reptilian alien overlords running the world need to get their shit together. They are doing a truly terrible job.
Also chemtrails are pretty unrealistic on a number of scientific levels. Too many people would need to be in on it, not to mention the vast amounts of chemicals they would be using would be noticed.