/r/actualconspiracies
Actual conspiracies exist.
We ferret them out.
No bullshit.
How do we define an actual conspiracy?
A plan developed in secret between two or more people that is either unlawful or harmful that has been discovered and investigated by a reliable third party organisation.
They can be criminal, military, business, political or simply immoral.
Make your submissions interesting.
Here's our philosophy in a nutshell.
All conspiracies can be investigated with the scientific method.
Link post template:
[YEAR OF CONSPIRACY] NEWS ORGANIZATION reports on CONSPIRACY SUMMARY
Submitters have to have both read and summarized in their own words or with quotes all the key aspects of the conspiracy in the title. No headline copying or vague submissions.
Link posts can only contain references to established third party news organizations which include liberal amounts of third party evidence that can be publicly corroborated.
Any banned media sources will be killed.
If the actual conspiracy is from a while back, prepend the year, e.g. [1984], to your submission.
No fringe, unsupported and highly speculative conspiracy theorist sources will be allowed here.
Why is the organization so important?
It's because readers must clearly know who is reporting on something, because that is just as important as what they are reporting. We don't have infinite time, so use reputable sources.
Text post template:
Hypothesis: What's the conspiracy? Be specific.
Players/Incentives: List all relevant players with their incentives. Be specific.
Estimated likelihood: X% chance of reality matching hypothesis.
Third party evidence/Arguments: References supporting the hypothesis. Be specific.
Then the community verifies what you think using extreme scepticism + empiricism + science. This is a bastardized version of peer review.
The default position is that the "conspiracy does not exist".
After tearing your references to shreds, if the hypothesis still stands to probabilistic reason, the conspiracy is upgraded to "plausible".
Unless third party evidence (court documents, investigative pieces by reliable news organizations, etc.) arrives to explicitly support the theory it will remain "plausible", after which it can be listed as "confirmed".
Theories that are debunked will only periodically be allowed back in the sub.
DISALLOWED COMMENTS
The following comments are unconducive to proper discussion and will be removed. Repeat offenders will be banned.
/r/conspiracy style cynicism, up to and including claims that the mainstream media is burying the story in question. Don't go there.
Racism, sexism, homophobia, and the like. We do not tolerate these comments in the least. Expect them to be removed and you to be mocked and banned with extreme prejudice.
Non-factual accusations of being paid to comment (the shill gambit).
These are our favourite razors:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
When faced with competing hypotheses, select the one that makes the fewest assumptions.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Here are some of our best submissions:
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just a bored conspiracy buff on search for his next rabbithole
any suggestions would be appreciated. the more sinister the better. proven coverups, unredacted files, debunking, celebrity illuminati-esk and any kind of Shadow Government or "elites" talk is what im looking for
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[1930s-2023] DW report on the Spanish Child Abduction Scandal - cover up continuing today to protect institutions involved
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[2017] Mueller Report finds Trump administration benefited from Russian propaganda and had ties to Moscow.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download
It gets worse. Trump has praised Putin for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.salon.com/2022/02/24/praises-very-smart-putin-for-invading-ukraine/
23:01 UTC
[2007 - 2018] HBO reports on how the Baltimore police department’s gun trace taskforce (GTTF) stole from the public and put innocent people in jail to hide their own thefts.
HBO has a long track record of documentaries and shows that do in-depth, investigative journalism while presenting it in a way that is both factually accurate and interesting (e.g. Jon Oliver ). HBO has gone into great detail about the GTTF conspiracy that operated from 2007 until several arrests in 2018.
Since I can't link to the HBO series directly - here are some articles which go into the background of that conspiracy in quite some detail.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/we-own-this-city-david-simon-show-baltimore
https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1518581953339047936
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/04/24/we-own-this-city-hbo
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/entertainment/we-own-this-city-review/index.html
https://decider.com/2022/04/25/we-own-this-city-on-hbo-david-simon-george-pelecanos-interview
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[1943 - 1990] The University of California reports that documents uncovered when the "Great Western Sugar Co." went out of business documented how the sugar industry knew of harms from sugar and covered it up similarly to how the tobacco industry knew of the harms of smoking and covered that up.
A news broadcast/talk from the University of California TV program (UCTV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5szfPYKY4 published 06/2018
UCTV is the well established, decades old, news/media arm of the University of California, featuring programming from its ten campuses, three national labs and affiliated research institutions. (https://www.uctv.tv)
[Show ID: 33524] Endocrinologist Robert Lustig, Dentist Cristen Kearns and Health Policy Expert Laura Schmidt report on an "/r/actualconspiracy" discovered in the trove of documents released in the collapse of the Great Western Sugar Co. The documents provide an amazing look inside an organization which seems to have committed academic fraud by funding studies that could be spun to hide the sugar health harms and cancel and/or deny publication if they accurately reported sugar's health harms. Part of what's amazing about the documents is that they go into great detail about projects which were funded but where the authors did not disclose that funding and uncovering many of the projects that were cancelled that would otherwise never see the light of day.
The news broadcast starts with a medical overview. To skip to the "conspiracy" part of the broadcast go to the 2nd speaker.
00:00 - Start 00:15 - The Break-in - Robert Lustig 24:14 - The Cover-up - Cristen Kearns 41:34 - The Aftermath - Laura Schmidt 1:06:17 - Audience Questions
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