Intro to Conspiracy Theories: What Are They?

Conspiracy theories have been around for a while now, but recently  (2013-present) it has become a very popular topic of discussion especially among young people. A conspiracy theory is a description of an event that implores collusion, generally involves the government or any higher power than civilians in society. Usually these theories do not have any real hard evidence to support this accusation, it is all simply just talk. The most popular and most spoken of conspiracy theories include the John F. Kennedy Assassination, 9/11 Terrorist Attack, Flat-Earth Conspiracy and the Moon Landing. These are all very hot topics of debate among young people especially now. YouTube influencers have even hopped on the conspiracy wagon and in doing so now more and more people are aware and conscious of conspiracy theories. In the past 5 years, “conspiracy theories” has been searched into Google fairly frequently from 2013 to the present. In 2014 around March the spike of the search for conspiracies spiked upward to 91% of the world, this date coincides with the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which has plenty of conspiracies behind it.

Conspiracy theories are more for the people who are willing to take a leap of faith into believing something beyond what the modern world is telling them, these theories are not for everyone as most “adults” (30 and beyond) seem to feel it childish or preposterous for there to be some collusion with the government and aliens and what not. Fair enough, the whole idea of there being more to life than what our leaders in the government tell us, is all quite scary and a bit hard to believe but it would not be surprising.

- Nadia Raisianzadeh