We’ve got a bunch of new people now so let’s bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?
I’ll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being “creepy” through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)
The claims that more and more early humans are different species or subspecies is a move to bolster a new wave of race science for when america really starts collapsing. It takes advantage of younger researchers wanting to make a name for themselves, especially ones of less enfranchised groups who will do what they need to to secure jobs and funding. Some of these claims are really weak, but will get signal boosted, the same way the Iowa writing workshop was bolstered to further american isolation and post-modern art was funded to move away from materialism, so the nazis of the future can claim to be genuinely different races with some flimsy scientific evidence
Out of curiosity, are there any particular new “pre-humans” you feel are good examples of what you are describing?
Last ones I heard anything serious about for the short kings from Flores.
I’m bad with time, but that’s way too old to be the newest? I read it about Flores in NatGeo as a kid.
idk, I haven’t paid that much attention to human ancestors. Usually the whole paper is “Well we found a tooth and we’re pretty sure it’s not one we’ve found before” and then 30 pages of site documentation. Human ancestors have a pretty spotty fossil record on a good day so we’re often working on very scant information.