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Which conspiracy theories were actually true?
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The origins of COVID-19 still remain somewhat hazy.
Over three and a half years since the virus began spreading across the world.
That has led to a number of prominent conspiracy theories, with 25 of people in the UK believing that COVID was definitely or probably a hoax.
That finding was part of an April 2023 survey by Savanta for King's College London and the BBC.
It's also established that belief in other conspiracy theories is relatively high too, like the idea that the cost of living crisis is a government plot to control the public.
It got us at?
Do You Really Know thinking about conspiracy theories and, more specifically, ones that actually turned out to be true?
Of course, the vast majority are false, but there are certain exceptions to the rule.
The Watergate scandal In June 1972, Republican President Richard Nixon's campaign to be re-elected was in full flow.
But Nixon's campaign team weren't planning on playing fair.
On June 17, they sent a team of five burglars to Democrat offices at the Watergate complex in Washington DC.
Their aim was to photograph campaign documents and install hidden microphones, but they ended up getting caught and arrested.
Nixon denied that anyone in the White House had been aware of the burglary plan, and indeed he went on to win the presidential election in a landslide in November 1972.
But the media, and two journalists from the Washington Post in particular, played a part in exposing the cover-up.
This would eventually lead to President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
In 1974, the New York Times published a shocking report revealing the CIA had engaged in illegal and dangerous practices in attempts to develop interrogation and brainwashing techniques over the preceding two decades.
The dystopian-like MKUltra program was set against the background of the Cold War and saw the CIA use hypnosis, drug consumption and mental conditioning methods on non-consenting subjects.
Nevertheless, the agency defended its mind control programs by saying that Russia and China were doing exactly the same thing.
From 1932 to 1972, the US government conducted a study on African American men with syphilis in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Their objective was to observe the progression of the disease when left untreated.
The problem was that participants were misled into thinking that they were receiving treatment.
When the case was revealed to the public, it became a major scandal and led to a Senate investigation.
Of course, these are a few examples of conspiracies which turned out to be true, but still we shouldn't fall into the trap of believing anything and everything we read or watch, especially in the social media age.
There you have it.
Now you know three conspiracy theories which were actually true.
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