[Presentación] Three popular conspiracy theories.

First of all, I would like to do an introduction about what a conspiracy theory is and which three I have chosen.

A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors. Conspiracy theories often produce hypotheses that contradict the prevailing understanding of history or simple facts.

There are a lot of different theories and many of them are popular, but in my case I decided to choose three that I liked the most. The first one I’ll explain is about the moon landing, whether it is true or not the fact that men has arrived to the moon. Then I’ll talk about the mysterious disappearance of the flight 379, and finally I will explain a part of the theories about the 9/11 attack.

So, let’s start with the first one.

As we know, Apollo 11 was the name of the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. These two humans, Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969.

It clearly was a big step to humanity but, not many years later, 10 to be more exact, Bill Kaysing wrote and published a book (We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle) that was the first step to one of the biggest conspiracy theory ever.

To sum up, it is said that NASA needed to do something like this because of the Cold War and Vietnam War. Landing to the Moon would make America win the technological and special race that was holding with the Soviet Union, but it was too dangerous. This would also distract public attention from the unpopular Vietnam War. That’s why it is thought that could be faked.

I found an enormous list of arguments and rebuttals. Most of them are based on oddities that can be found in the photos and videos of the spaceship. For example, conspiracists say that in the photos we can’t see the stars, that it was impossible for the flat to flutter because there is no wind in the moon or that the lights and the shadows are inconsistent. However, specialists have been explaining the reasons of all of this: they explain that the stars were outshone by the sunlight, in the original videos we can see that the flag it is not fluttering at all and there are a lot of photos that had been edited by the public, that’s why the shadows and the lights are odd.

Now the second one, the mysterious disappearance of the flight 470.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to its destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China. The aircraft has not been recovered, and the cause for the disappearance remains unknown.

This uncertainty about what happened made people develop their own theories.

The most realistic ones say that it could have been a kidnapping or a terrorist act, especially because there were two Iranians with robbed passports. However, investigations concluded that it was just a case of irregular immigration. It is possible that it was a carelessness, mostly because the first official has precedents being irresponsible during a flight. There is also the possibility of a suicide or a technical error.

However, we have some unrealistic ones too. Some people said it could be hidden and prepared to attack Israel, some other said that it could have been related with an economical reason. Apparently, in that flight were travelling four Chinese associated with a patent that America launched some days after the accident. After the death of this four men, an American company would have the total control of the patent. And well, there are even people that think aliens could have been involved.

Anyway, even if we don’t really know what happened or where the airplane and the passengers are, it seems like it has been found some parts of the plane at the Indian Ocean so I hope someday they will find out what really happened.

And finally, probably the most talked attack that happened in the modern history: the September 11 terrorist attacks against United States.

The theories can be divided into three categories: Let it happen on purpose, claiming that the government knew about this attacks and did what they could to let it happen; Make it happen on purpose, suggesting that the government planned the attack in collaboration, or framing, Al-Qaeda; or others.

On one hand, some people think that the United States government knew about all of this and let it happen, decreasing the defences and allowing the entrance of the hijackers even if some of them shouldn’t have gotten in the United States because there was something wrong with their passports.

On the other hand, some other people think that it was all planned by the government, that the Twin towers were actually collapsed by a controlled demolition and that the Pentagon was attacked by a missile, which mean that the attack was faked.

But why all of this? It seems like everything was planned to give the United States a reason enough to declare the war and attack Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. And that wouldn’t sound so crazy considering that the explosion of the Main during 1898 was a good reason to attack Spain and win Cuba.

But, in the end, we will never know if these theories are true or not. However, I think is fascinating how we are capable of thinking all of these theories and how they become so famous because the rest of the people believe in them.

Nota: 7.75/10