Are there any examples of something that was a conspiracy theory being validated by confidential documents later? I can't think of any, even though secret agencies sure did do a lot of crazy stuff.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

plenty https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2019/09/30-conspiracy-theories-that-might-sound-crazy-but-are-100-true/

[–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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*, I'm interested in stuff people successfully predicted.)

*well, I am, but it's not what the question is about

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

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.

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