What conspiracy theory, no matter how silly, do you believe in?

Lottery is a scam to catch time travelers

Not even really a theory but a historically verifiable strategy used by the automakers, but Jaywalking was invented by car companies to put the blame on cyclists and pedestrians for getting killed by cars so that they could monopolize use of the public roads for cars and here we are over 100yrs later and vehicle collisions are like the number 2 leading cause of death in the country behind gun violence.

At least the gun manufacturers didn't steal public space out from under the feet of everyone.

The fluoride in the water is secretly pushed by the sugar industry. Without it, their products would be rotting teeth faster than ever and people would buy less sweets as a result.

Government members actually don't care about people and just want to be elected to get more money and power. Yeah, I know it's a silly one.

Slavery never went away, it was disguised as jobs for the working class. And now the capital class has been sold the wet dream of slavery 3.0 in the form of AI replacing not just the average job, but the average person themselves. No sick days, no complaints. That's why AI is being shoved into everything and the climate and economy are on the brink of destruction, to get rid of us for good.

Belief in alien UFOs is deliberately promoted as it makes a good cover for experimental government aircraft.

The NSA has backdoors in most computer chipsets.

Alex Jones is a false flag crisis actor designed to discredit anyone revealing genuine conspiracies.

Mine is that the term "conspiracy theo[rist/ry]" was made up by intelligence agencies to hide the shady things they were doing to the public, like testing torture methods, drugs and experimental weapons on impoverished communities

The romans had circuitry. Maybe not electric powered, but water powered? Oh you bet. If they could rig up an entire senate to rotate like a lazy suzan by manufacturing ball bearings and hooking it up to advanced gearing powered by a river....?

Plus they knew how to work with lead metal, so other conductive metals werent completely out of reach, and they were masters of mass-scale uniform production. Their road structures and aquaducts barely even scratch the surface of what their engineers could do

JFK’s head spontaneously exploded with no explanation. The government quickly found some local bum, framed him and then shot him before he could say anything, to manufacture the idea of an assassination, because the alternative—that anyone’s head could spontaneously explode at any time for no reason—would cause mass panic and a collapse of the economy.

In Star Wars Episode 1, George intentionally included many hints that something weird was happening with Jar Jar, but the public backlash against the character caused a rewrite of Episodes 2 and 3, including the specific introduction of Count Dooku. Jar Jar was supposed to be revealed as a Sith.

The YellowKey Vulnerability was an engineered backdoor for the CIA/FBI/NSA.

The shows like x-files, men in black (and others that I can’t think of from the top of my head) are actually documentaries, but no one would believe them, so they’re presented as fictional entertainment.

My cat actually likes me

I doubt whether the members of ZZ Top have real beards.

I believed in reptilians / illuminati until I got diagnosed with schizophrenia :/

That everything is gonna be okay someday.

Ok, so in the TV show Stargate SG-1, the Stargate program is an Air Force initiative to use an ancient alien device to send teams through a wormhole to planets in distant reaches of the galaxy where they interact with aliens and humans from other worlds.

One of those humans, having become a refugee on Earth after losing a war to aliens, creates a television show which essentially "files off the serial numbers" of the actual Stargate program.

When the Air Force learns about this, they allow the show to remain on the air, because that way if the story of the Stargate program ever leaks, anyone who hears it will dismiss it as the ravings of a fanboy who got too into the show, or of a conspiracy theory who can't tell fiction from reality.

So the first part is, I think that the US Government could totally be using this to hide something really wild. Maybe there actually is an Upside Down ("oh really? Like in Stranger Things? Suuuure.") or maybe aliens really do exist ("bro, you've been watching too much X-Files.") and maybe not only do they exist but they've formed this whole secret subculture on Earth ("dude, that's literally just the premise of Men In Black.").

But see, now we run into a truly Heller-esque bit of circular logic, because with me even saying that, now the government can just say, "come on buddy, that's just the plot of season 5 episode 12 of a TV show you're on the record as a fan of."

This also helps to explain why Trump and his cadre hasn't blabbed about aliens in the past decade. They were told about the secret government program, but then they were also told exactly which TV shows and movies have been made to discredit the truth, and exactly how the conspiracy would make them look like laughable idiots if they revealed the truth.

tl;dr: superheroes are real, they're way more like The Avengers than you'd think, they have an airtight plan to discredit anyone who leaks it, and "Wormhole X-treme!" is part of the conspiracy

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream isn't a science fiction story, that's gonna happen to some people. Telepathy is also real.

The core of the earth is a giant magnet. Really. It's an iron core, and that's one of the main things that gave The Earth a magnetic field to protect us against part of the deadly laser in the sky.

I don't think it would have enough magnetic pull to take pens and lighters from the surface though. Also how does that account for all the missing socks I hear about? I don't think that cotton/polyester blends are magnetic.

The initial model they used in that initial trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was a marketing stunt and they always planned to replace it.

UFOs are real, and non human intelligence is here with us on earth, but those are both distractions from the much more consequential secrets: spacetime, and everything that exists within it, is a product of consciousness. Our consciousness continues after death. Telepathy, telekinesis, remote viewing, and precognition are possible. Human science is controlled and new discoveries in public academia are suppressed to prevent us from learning the truth.

Moon is hollow

Interesting to note that people that believe in conspiracy theories typically believe in more than one.

Obama’s mom was CIA.