Comments on: Randomly generate conspiracy theories with this conspiracy theory generator

By: Lemoutan

Lemoutan — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:54:00 +0000

Well, nobody needs a computer to do it – it’s just more efficient.

Or is it?

By: Clifton Wood

Clifton Wood — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:39:00 +0000

I gotta say…. I smell the mad-lib roots, here.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:40:00 +0000

?? Seems like it should be the other way around.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:34:00 +0000

I can’t wait for the the strenuous mental acrobatics that will be preformed to link the next president* to 9/11

*except for the fact that Obama is going to declare martial sharia law to make himself president for life to take our guns so he can feed them to the lizard people.

By: ww1234

ww1234 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:32:00 +0000

I thought that was just me. Now I am scared.

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:32:00 +0000

Taking bets as to how long it takes for one of these randomly generated pages to show up on beforeitsnews.com (and from thence to ATS of course).

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:30:00 +0000

Hypotheses aren’t necessarily irrational and “conspiracy” is still part of the phrase, but I like the “not to be taken as seriously as a conspiracy theory” element to it.

“Mirror fishing” just popped into my head. Trying to explore a world of shadowy entities beneath what is in reality a thin, flat surface reflecting back at you.

“Alex Jones isn’t telling anyone the truth about anything. He’s just mirror fishing.” I like it but it’s probably not catchy or evocative enough.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:13:00 +0000

I used to love Rigorous Intuition back when that dude was still publishing. Shit throwing crazy, but very well written.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:12:00 +0000

How about “conspiracy hypothesis”?

By: rocketpjs

rocketpjs — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:10:00 +0000

I remember the card game Ulluminati had a ‘conspiracy theorist’ card that looked a lot like Noam Chomsky, the purpose of the card was to mask actual conspiracies.

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:39:00 +0000

Last month a LaRoucher accosted me on the street and tried to convince me that president Obama was the real mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

By: Chang Terhune

Chang Terhune — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:13:00 +0000

I used to read Conspiracy Magazine for fun, and I used to love stuff like this right up until the Oklahoma City bombing. Then I realized people believe the craziest shot for real and it lost its fun.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:42:00 +0000

Not really. It’s not at all controversial that conspiracies have happened and still happen. I think if you point out a few famous historic examples pretty much anyone would concede to that.

The problem with conspiracy theorists is that they are very, very certain about the truth of highly implausible theses on the basis of absolutely no evidence for and often a great deal of evidence against. The problem is compounded further by the fact that the less evidence there is for and the more evidence there is against their “theory” the more certain and vociferous they become. In a world where it’s incredibly difficult to establish reliable facts about any kind of occurrence conspiracy theorists make it even harder.

And they undermine their own causes. The most convincing answer to a lot of the 9/11 Pentagon attack “there was no 757″ I’ve seen was a site put together by a 9/11 truther explaining that he wanted to debunk the “no 757″ theories because he thought they distracted from and discredited the more significant and plausible 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Conspiracies do happen but conspiracy theories are almost always wrong, and more importantly they’re usually structured so that they cannot be falsified. And again, this only makes it harder to discover real conspiracies. Perhaps it would be ideal to have a different term for “conspiracy theories” to emphasize the irrational nature of many of these beliefs.

By: ToMajorTom

ToMajorTom — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:59:00 +0000

Now it all makes sense. Someone auto-generates a conspiracy that gets passed around, eventually shows up in the in-box of one of my nutbar relatives, and is subsequently posted as truth on my Facebook wall.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:42:00 +0000

Man, do I miss Bat Boy and the Weekly World News. As fun as this thing is, it seems a mere pale imitation.

By: jackie31337

jackie31337 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:34:00 +0000

Oh good, now I don’t have to make my own from scratch any more.

By: smallteam

smallteam — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:54:00 +0000

Looked up the domain name the other day in WHOIS. It’s registered to a man with a PO Box in Langley, Va….
http://www.whois.net/whois/verifiedfacts.org

By: Ron Davidson

Ron Davidson — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:19:00 +0000

That’s what they want you to think.

By: israfella

israfella — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:04:00 +0000

The problem with the war on conspiracy theorists is that it insinuates one is a fool to believe there may be conspiracies happening in this world.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:57:00 +0000

When I read that site, I hear it in Rush Limbaugh’s voice. How are they doing that? Is it something in the stylesheet?

By: Amber Light

Amber Light — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:25:00 +0000

“The Chinese character for sickle cell anemia looks a lot like the character for Pope Benedict XVI’s name– and it’s not a coincidence.”

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:43:00 +0000

+1 for Red Sea pedestrians… and what an awesome name for a Klesmer band!

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:42:00 +0000

The search function is especially helpful. One search and you can learn the awful truth about BoingBoing. Of course this comment will be removed by THEM, so act now! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:21:00 +0000

‘The reliability of these findings has been verified’

Love it.

By: edgore

edgore — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:23:00 +0000

Well, yeah…if you are a victim to their orthodoxy.

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:57:00 +0000

I was disappointed that I had to read several articles there before one of them mentioned us Red-Sea pedestrians. One of the perks of being a Jew is that it’s such a great way to convince lunatics that I’m somebody powerful and influential. If the nuts are starting to ignore us, I might go over to the Freemasons.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:55:00 +0000

Does the orthodoxy of a crazed person really matter?

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:54:00 +0000

Did you know that dude is still around? I thought he died years ago.

By: Werther deGoethe

Werther deGoethe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:37:00 +0000

These are just the facts They want you to know. They’re trying to distract you from the REAL truth.

By: edgore

edgore — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:42:00 +0000

It makes me sad, because someone will probably get killed over something very similar to what this thing spits out.