Thanks, that’s a nice askreddit thread. A lot of these have the same problem though, which is that I have trouble believing (and have no idea how to find evidence, since they were well pre-internet) that these were conspiracy theories before they were revealed.
(I note now that I didn’t actually mention, in my comment, that by “was a conspiracy theory” I don’t just mean “sounds crazy” but rather “sounded crazy and there were actually people saying it”. I’m not interested in every insane thing secret agencies did (well, I am, but it’s not what the question is about), I’m interested in stuff people successfully predicted.)
There are plenty of books and articles discussing these things. This comment points to an excellent one you can read https://lemmy.ml/post/24336378/15865218
It’s not like information from before the internet is not accessible either. You can easily search for old news papers, and so on. This is a topic that’s pretty thoroughly documented.
plenty https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2019/09/30-conspiracy-theories-that-might-sound-crazy-but-are-100-true/
Thanks, that’s a nice askreddit thread. A lot of these have the same problem though, which is that I have trouble believing (and have no idea how to find evidence, since they were well pre-internet) that these were conspiracy theories before they were revealed.
(I note now that I didn’t actually mention, in my comment, that by “was a conspiracy theory” I don’t just mean “sounds crazy” but rather “sounded crazy and there were actually people saying it”. I’m not interested in every insane thing secret agencies did (well, I am, but it’s not what the question is about), I’m interested in stuff people successfully predicted.)
There are plenty of books and articles discussing these things. This comment points to an excellent one you can read https://lemmy.ml/post/24336378/15865218
It’s not like information from before the internet is not accessible either. You can easily search for old news papers, and so on. This is a topic that’s pretty thoroughly documented.