We all love a good conspiracy theory. The X-Files even gave us a good long run on Fox that perpetuated our inner need to know that people were working in cohoots behind all of our backs.
There have been some conspiracies that have turned out to be true blowing the theory portion out
of the water.
Mad scientists that were truly crazy as a betsy bug on crack, well we have those when you think about the Tuskagee Experiment, where cuckoo doctors experimented with penicillin on folks with syphilis. Now don’t go thinking this was cool because the experiments were basically done on poor black men without their consent. The scandal took 40 years to hit mainstream media and the experiments were truly horrible.
Conspiracy? No. Real. Yes.
Guy Fawkes was a real guy. No, he wasn’t Hugo Weaving, he was a man pissed off at the British Parliament. And he wanted to blow it up (or to quote John Candy on Second City “Blow it up reeaaal good.) What people may not know is it was a religious battle between Protestants and Catholics. Someone ratted Fawkes and his conspirators out so they didn’t follow through with their plan but it did set the English government on its ear. Now the country celebrates Guy Fawkes day every November 5.
Was there a conspiracy? You can bet the Buick that there was.
Cracked magazine, which has a wonderful blog and you so need to be reading it, has a list of the seven greatest insane conspiracies that were absolutely, positively true. Scientologists get a mention as does Hitler and even George Herbert Walker Bush’s dad, Prescott, in a mad military coup that didn’t happen.
No word on who killed John F. Kennedy though or when Karl Rove joins the list. Because, you know, there is this theory about a conspiracy with both of them. Wonder when it’s going to be proven true.
