How did we get so casual about conspiracy theories?

I was talking with someone today about nutrition. This person has a PhD in material science. They mentioned eating beef daily and I asked about the cholesterol implications. The answer was about a vague ‘they’ wanted us to think that, but it wasn’t true anymore.

I hear the vague ‘they’ so frequently now it’s just a normal conversation. In truth, as soon as I hear the vague they I dismiss the speaker’s credibility on the subject, but how did we get here? Vague they wanted us to think X is a valid counter argument by the most highly educated people in our society?

This sounds like more of a rant than a question, but I do truly want to know how this happened? Was it pop culture like the X Files that made conspiracy theories main stream? Was it social media? When will the vague they stop being an accepted explanation? Has it always been this way and I didn’t notice?

Thanks, love you!

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Miriam Adelson gave 200 million dollars to Donald Trump. Betar writes all his policies when it comes to Israel. They are deporting people inside of America for protesting against Israel. This is completely unheard of even for protesting against America. They do not care about Trumps policies when it comes to anything except Israel. If Trump wants to destroy the dollar they will let him do so.

    Israel is the Nazis. They have no strategically sound plans. The previous times their genocides were stopped. It was by Republican presidents who got external pressure from countries such as Saudi Arabia and they did the realpoltik thing. Which was for the best for Israel because it is not able to win a sustained war in the region. Inadvertedly them stopping Israel helped Israel.

    The problem now is that Israel controls America and the West completely and there is nobody left to stop Israel self-destructing. Liberal Zionists always made sure to keep up the illusion that Israel was the good guy, but the new right wing Israelis do not feel they need to do that. The West has every power to stop Israel and make them still look like some kind of good guy, but they are not doing it. Why??

    There is only one thing that Israel has not managed to do and that is to get America to bomb Iran for them.