Are there any credible conspiracy theories?

This behavior is something I keep pointing out.

Conspiracy theorists are ignoring and downplaying the giant pile of false claims to claim: "see we were right all along."

My point is that you are downplaying or ignoring the conspiracy theories that were being spread both at the time or now. Or you simply arent aware of it because you didnt do any research.

If you want to suggest a conspiracy about what was and wasn't labeled a conspiracy theory maybe you should educate yourself on what conspiracy theories were being rightly labeled first.

Seymour Hersh's one has been torn to pieces. He's gone down a total rabbit hole in recent years.

Three years of following this debate on and off. It's obvious there's a clear consensus that it was zoonotic in origin, aka that it jumped from animals as opposed to being man-made. There aren't that many scientists or experts who've supported the man-made theory and as mentioned several of those key proponents walked their views back.

Can pull on countless articles, but this recent one sums up the current position pretty well

"The Wall Street Journal added to that debate this week when they reported that the U.S. Department of Energy has shifted its stance on the origin of COVID. It now concludes, with "low confidence," that the pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China.

The agency based its conclusion on classified evidence that isn't available to the public. According to the federal government, "low confidence" means "the information used in the analysis is scant, questionable, fragmented, or that solid analytical conclusions cannot be inferred from the information."

And at this point, the U.S. intelligence community still has no consensus about the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Four of the eight intelligence agencies lean toward a natural origin for the virus, with "low confidence," while two of them — the DOE and the Federal Bureau of Investigation — support a lab origin, with the latter having "moderate confidence" about its conclusion."

"But at the end of the day, the origin of the pandemic is also a scientific question. Virologists who study pandemic origins are much less divided than the U.S. intelligence community. They say there is "very convincing" data and "overwhelming evidence" pointing to an animal origin.

In particular, scientists published two extensive, peer-reviewed papers in Science in July 2022, offering the strongest evidence to date that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in animals at a market in Wuhan, China. Specifically, they conclude that the coronavirus most likely jumped from a caged wild animal into people at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where a huge COVID-19 outbreak began in December 2019.

Virologist Angela Rasmussen, who contributed to one of the Science papers, says the DOE's "low confident" conclusion doesn't "negate the affirmative evidence for zoonotic [or animal] origin nor do they add any new information in support of lab origin."

"Many other [news] outlets are presenting this as new conclusive proof that the lab origin hypothesis is equally as plausible as the zoonotic origin hypothesis," Rasmussen wrote in an email to NPR, "and that is a misrepresentation of the evidence for either."

I'm referring to virologists and related experts who have given their opinion.

There is of course the possibility that this was deliberate misinformation. One government “source” leaks him detailed information, parts of which can be refuted, thus discrediting the idea the US were involved in destroying the destroyed pipeline they promised to destroy.

It is just bad faith discussion and hypocrisy on your behalf King Mob. You won’t answer a question you have been asked yet admonish others.

Again, this is a misrepresentation of my point and my argument. This is not a good faith argument on your part.

His "Bin Laden killing was a conspiracy" was largely based on one anonymous source from Pakistan.

He was a good journalist back in the day, now he's more known for producing strange stuff that is just plain bad.

Keyword: revealed. Not sure what's happened to the man since, but something did. He thinks 9/11 was an inside job and maintains that the Skripals weren't poisoned by Putin.

if you mean Woodward's source "Deep Throat," his name was Mark Felt and he passed away a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)

Alexander Butterfield gave out the existence of the tape recording equipment. Lots and lots of information came from many sources of Watergate, John Dean was a big contributor.

Russian paramilitaries and mercenaries running amok in Africa, probably not attractive as it makes everyone's favourite thug in chief/totally legit billionaire look bad.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/witnesses-unravel-chinese-mass-murder-085649436.html

The above is either common knowledge or unsurprising behaviour, therefore unlikely to find any interest in it on conspiracy theory forums where believers are more attracted to speculation that makes them feel "special" often neatly implicating their favorite "baddies".

I'll just leave this here...

What many have been saying all along. Those who claim to be abe to sniff out conspiracies where there's no evidence seem to be blind to those for which there's plenty.

Narrative: "The West is evil"

Conspiracy: Global free press is all controlled.

Aim: To get people to distrust factual information so it can be replaced by distorted narratives.

Used by: Alex Jones and pretty much every conspiracy theorist.

Examples: Every page of this sub-forum and any conspiracy site

First ... I qualify I do not support any war incl Russian war in Ukraine ... all these wars are evil ....

What bugs me though is .... we are supposed to condemn ... and rightly so ... this Russian invasion of Ukraine ... yet we were supposed to be ok with the 2003 invasion of Iraq or 20 years of war in Afghanistan that started with ousting the Taliban and ended with a restoration of the Taliban ... Russia had a better argument regarding Ukraine as it was near them and a part of it at one time ... Iraq and Afghanistan were never part of the USA ....

How many evil regimes have come about because of the West's war mongering .... ISIS came out of the Iraq war ... worse than Saddam ... there was nothing too wrong with the 2013-2021 Iranian government ... but Trump decided he would take them down ... now Iran has a regime that presides over a broken economy and all they want to do is catch women who have no veils on .... thank you Trump ...

And Trump is about as big a despot as anyone from anywhere else in the world .... Trump stands for evil and would cause a war in his own country too .... he nearly did in January 2021 .... and he still tries to stir up insurrection as good as any ISIS or Al Qaeda preacher could do ...

And if you think Trump was the only bad US president ... think again ... just look up all the countries invaded in the wrong ... Vietnam is one example ... Iraq another ... Bill Clinton went to war with 4 different countries IIRC .... sometimes to divert attention away from his personal scandals ...

Every country that is a mess today is more often than not in that mess because of the West ... Iran (Trump's sanctions) .... Iraq (wars directed on it by 3 US presidents against Saddam) ... Afghanistan (who armed the Taliban against the USSR I wonder?) ... the West esp USA is in no position to point the finger at anyone ... they were in more wars than Russia was ....

Besides the US didn’t just arm the Taliban. They supported various factions who fought against the Russians, unfortunately in the civil war that came later the Taliban would be the victors. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan probably played the biggest part in developing the Taliban into what they ste today.

Too boring. No microchips, WEF, or pedos.

Weirdly, there are some great podcasts and youtube videos out there on real conspiracies, scams and shady businesses out there.

They make for some fascinating content, but because the information really isn't that shocking, and doesn't really tie into certain world views, they aren't as interesting to some people.