Conspiracy Theories I Don’t Believe, But The Evidence Is Chilling

What happens when strange coincidences refuse to dissolve cleanly

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Conspiracies are usually crushed by the sheer ineptness of humans. If you’ve spent any time in a corporate boardroom or government organisation, you’ll know just how difficult it is to get three people to agree on what they want for their lunch. The idea that there are hundreds of bureaucrats, military officials and politicians who could conspire to cover up something perfectly on a global scale without any disgruntled contractors leaking their presentation on WhatsApp is complete nonsense. Humans are messy, anxious, and always looking for a book deal. Conspiracies on a large scale require a god-like discipline which governments have almost none of.

However, every so often, you find yourself digging into documents and finding strange anomalies. I’m not referring to alien autopsies or maps of the hollow earth. I’m referring to genuine, cold, hard facts that make me uncomfortable, where the official story ends with a nervous shrug and an explanation so clumsy that it insults anyone who works with numbers. You look into official reports, public financial records, or declassified documents, and instead of finding the usual mix-ups that internet conspiracy theorists love, you see a number of facts that…