{"id":48857,"date":"2024-01-16T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48857"},"modified":"2024-01-16T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:32:34","slug":"15-covid-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48857","title":{"rendered":"15 COVID &#8220;Conspiracy Theories&#8221; That Turned Out To Be True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems, with respect to COVID, the term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d could easily be interchanged with \u201cspoiler alert.\u201d This is just a shortlist. There are so many more \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d that ended up being true. The term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d was initially used by the CIA to shut down those who doubted the official line about the murder of John F. Kennedy. But it turns out that what authorities deem to be \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d actually end up being true more often than they would like to admit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantfox.substack.com\/p\/15-covid-conspiracy-theories-that\">https:\/\/vigilantfox.substack.com\/p\/15-covid-conspiracy-theories-that<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems, with respect to COVID, the term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d could easily be interchanged with \u201cspoiler alert.\u201d This is just a shortlist. There are so many more \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d that ended up being true. The term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d was initially used by the CIA to shut down those who doubted the official line about the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;15 COVID &#8220;Conspiracy Theories&#8221; That Turned Out To Be True&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48858,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48857\/revisions\/48858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}