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Absolutely none of them.
None? Pretty sure if you look into them you may think one of them may have something to it...
Searched for random ones that are know for a while:
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-Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
-MKUltra: the CIA Mind-Control Project
-The 1990 Testimony of Nayirah
-Operation Snow White: The Church of Scientology Versus The U.S. Government
-CIA Assassinations
-The Business Plot: Fascism in America
-Operation Mockingbird: The CIA Propaganda Machine
-COINTELPRO: The FBI vs. 1960s Activists
-Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Find Employment in America
-Operation Northwoods: How to Wage War on Cuba
-Bohemian Grove: The Rich, the Powerful, and the Giant Stone Owl
11 Unbelievable Conspiracy Theories That Were Actually True
That's tricky, because "conspiracy theory" implies a level of deception that makes falsifiability of anything difficult. Like, if somebody starts chatting me up on the street and I wonder if I'm going to get scammed or jumped, that's a theory about a conspiracy, but it's not a conspiracy theory because it only involves a few people and I still can be sure what's up and what's down.
Epstein being murdered gets called a conspiracy theory, but if a couple of guards, a warden and a single wealthy instigator were the only participants, and they were really sloppy covering it up, is that really so implausible?
I think you are overthinking it.
Could have been anything:
parents lying about santa, maybe
moon landing, nasa
Anything is good, hahahah
That Covid was made.
I dont really think its true, but the richest get richer with every catastrophe, people actually believe "everything just gets more expensive" (which is absolute bullshit and rich people just use it to make more profits). Also, genetically modifying some viruses should be totally possible today.
This, I could believe. As an escaped bioweapons project (less likely), or as a flu vaccine research project gone wrong (most likely). I don't believe it, per se - it doesn't satisfy Occam's Razor - but it's within the realm of not-so-insane.
The Helen Keller conspiracy feels like it could be a real.