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Conspiracy Theories That Actually Turned Out To Be True - Part 3
Conspiracy Theories That Actually Turned Out To Be True - Part 3
Conspiracy: For decades, tobacco companies buried evidence that smoking is deadly.
The truth: At the beginning of the 1950s, research was showing an indisputable statistical link between smoking and lung cancer, but it wasn’t until the late 1990s that Philip Morris even admitted that smoking could cause cancer.
Conspiracy: E.T. is buried in the desert of New Mexico.
The truth: This one is real: The Atari video game E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial failed so miserably that the company buried unsold cartridges in a desert landfill. (Wait, what did you think we meant? Real aliens? In New Mexico? Not yet, anyway.)
Conspiracy: The Canada government was so paranoid about homosexuality that it developed a “gaydar” machine.
The truth: It really happened: In the 1960s, the government hired a university professor to develop a way to detect homosexuality in federal employees.
Conspiracy: A secret society that rules the world – the Illuminati – and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) are in cahoots.
The truth: We’re here to tell you that a link does, in fact, exist.
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By Hope AlotConspiracy Theories That Actually Turned Out To Be True - Part 3
Conspiracy: For decades, tobacco companies buried evidence that smoking is deadly.
The truth: At the beginning of the 1950s, research was showing an indisputable statistical link between smoking and lung cancer, but it wasn’t until the late 1990s that Philip Morris even admitted that smoking could cause cancer.
Conspiracy: E.T. is buried in the desert of New Mexico.
The truth: This one is real: The Atari video game E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial failed so miserably that the company buried unsold cartridges in a desert landfill. (Wait, what did you think we meant? Real aliens? In New Mexico? Not yet, anyway.)
Conspiracy: The Canada government was so paranoid about homosexuality that it developed a “gaydar” machine.
The truth: It really happened: In the 1960s, the government hired a university professor to develop a way to detect homosexuality in federal employees.
Conspiracy: A secret society that rules the world – the Illuminati – and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) are in cahoots.
The truth: We’re here to tell you that a link does, in fact, exist.