Conspiracies… How do people believe these? Frankly, I don’t know. The psychology of conspiracy theorists is quite interesting as these theorists have come up with some pretty wacky stuff. Bear in mind, however, while conspiracies are usually false, there is nothing wrong with scepticism. It is completely fine to be sceptical but there is a very thick line between being a sceptic and being a conspiracy theorist…
Without further ado, let’s get on to debunking these 5 conspiracies…
- One of the most famous conspiracies of all time is that the moon landing was faked. However, looking at the photographs, you can clearly see that the shadows are parallel. The only way this could be faked would be with the aid of a bunch of tiny lasers, the estimated cost which would actually be higher than that of the moon landing… And to those who claim it was CGI, CGI didn’t even exist at the time! Even if Stanley Kubrick directed it, we all know he’s a perfectionist and he would’ve shot it on the moon.
2. Was Obama from Kenya?
Short answer: No.
The long answer is also very simple: he has a birth certificate that shows he is from Hawaii. And even if he was African, he could still legally be president as he had an American parent.
3. Is Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro? No. No, he isn’t. Just because he praised Castro back in 2016 when he [Castro] died doesn’t mean he was Castro’s son. All it meant was that he liked what Castro did; not everything political has a double meaning- and the belief that it does only shows our main flaw as humans: we lack trust abilities- everyone of us- then we create a word to insult people who trust everything. ‘Naive’ is one such word and is rarely used as a compliment, as it is a personality trait many people try to take advantage of. Also, if Trudeau was Castro’s son, Castro would have used that as a political advantage…
4. Do vaccines cause autism? No, they do not. There have been multiple studies to debunk this conspiracy, and multiple other studies that debunk every other scare-tactic anti-vaxxers use. Now, innocent children are dying because of this movement. There’s even a rumor in the anti-vaxx community that vaccinated people ‘shed.’ What does that even mean?! Vaccinate your kids, please.
5. Finally, on our list, we have a strange conspiracy that states that our solar system is geocentric (that it orbits the earth) instead of heliocentric (that it orbits the sun).
Didn’t Galileo prove this wrong way back during the Renaissance? This one just confuses me, as it makes no sense at all. Who would believe it? Some people apparently. The solar system orbits the centre of mass, which is in the sun, as it has more mass than anything else in the solar system.
We hope you’ve enjoyed our short journey into the wild and wacky world of conspiracies. Stay on the lookout for the next article, where we investigate how a conspiracy theorist thinks.
