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Just another crazy conspiracy theory.

What makes you think this is false? I'm pretty sure this is not just a theory anymore, not for a long time. In fact, you can go read about it on the CIAs freedom of information act portal, on their own website. So it's just a "crazy conspiracy", a real one.

He said conspiracy theory. Not that it’s false.

You're right, I shouldn't have jumped from one to the other, despite the phrasing.

I think that might be the point of GP, that when people hear "conspiracy theory" they think "false", but it really means a theory about a conspiracy. This theory about a conspiracy has a lot of evidence supporting is.

Ah, you're right, I may have misread their post, if it was made tongue-in-cheek. I'm not one to assume all conspiracy theories are false, but I took their comment at face value, and I think this one is past being "theory".

I personally think we should start calling these "conspiracy facts" or some variation to differentiate them from, say, Bigfoot.

It really happened, there were senate hearings about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

yep, I'm aware

Crazy) It is crazy that the CIA did this Conspiracy) It is a conspiracy what the CIA pulled off Theory) “ A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking

I agree. Although the story is true. We should get used to conspiracy theories being true

And the CIA invented the term.

100% agreement

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