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Anti-perspirant causes breast cancer. You look at data for Japan back in the 90's-2000s and breast cancer was like 80 times less prevalent in Japan vs the US. Now Japanese are starting to use it more and breast cancer instances are raising to be more on-par with the US. The NIH did a study that was inconclusive so everyone assumes its not true. However, if you read the study you realize exactly how inconclusive it is, and that the answer was truly more along the lines of: "We don't know".

Sinatra got the mob to murder JFK because of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe.

Years ago I had fun with "what if the US never actually went to the moon". I did not believe it, it was just a nice plot idea, we even made a pen & paper oneshot about it. Nowadays I have no whatsoever fun in thought experiments like this, because the real threat of someone believing it to be true. I want to enjoy "birds aren't real" or "giraffes do not exist" or ... the worst is flat earth. It started out as a joke and now idiots try to proof the earth is flat, proof by accident it isn't and then question rather their methods than their belief system. We just can't have nice things.

I got another one (that's pretty much a fact) in order to get facial recognision, fingerprint sensors, etc working you have to login with your ms/apple/google acc, on windows 7 you didn't have to... now why would you need an online connection to setup a piece of physikal hardware with local sofyware??? It's pretty simple: apple, google and microsoft know your face, your fingerprint, your voice, your location, etc

Determinism

The world was created somewhen between 2012 and 2 weeks ago by everyone and everything ever called alien(that i know of)

From ancient egyptians, ancient dacians, to cats and Hitler were involved in the creation of the world

The Bin Laden killing was a hoax. That guy died year ago because he was on dialysis machines that wouldn’t really function well somewhere deep in the Pakistani mountains. Or maybe he was actually in that house they raided at some point. But the message came out of nowhere like around the time of the reelection campaign. And they never showed a body. But then they even came up with some BS excuse that a sea burial would be Islamic tradition. Also if they really found him why wouldn’t they just arrest him and give him a process? I’m not buying it.

The RTO push is designed to keep the commercial real-estate market from crashing. I've never seen any good proof of this, but believe it. I don't exactly know why CEOs of big companies would really care that much about commercial real-estate. Perhaps their large shareholders (hedge fund managers?) also own commercial real-estate and are putting pressure on CEOs? Perhaps at that level it's just a big club, and all the wealthy just help eachother out, out of solidarity? Dunno.

the feds and big corpos are spying on you and the only reason you're still alive is because

a) you're a small fish

xor

b) you help them in some way by being a usefull idiot

xor

c) you're part of the conspiracy

Kary Mullis didn't invent PCR, his then-gf Jenny did. Matilda effect

Other theory: a staff member at Neopets is messing with in game economy to sell digital items irl on ebay

You know how some people believe Paul McCartney is dead and was replaced with a body double? I think that happened to Jontron at some point before the incident.