• Question: what is your favourite conspisary?

    Asked by ehab2k11 to Steve, Julian, Jemma, Eoin, Charlie on 22 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Eoin Lettice

      Eoin Lettice answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hi ehab2k11,
      I’m not really into conspiracy theories. Being a scientist, you tend to take a very logical view of things and, I think, that if you look logically at most conspiraces, you’ll find that there is an easy explanation for all of them!
      However, my number one conspiracy at the moment is how those choclate cream-filled eggs that you get around this time of year (I can’t mention the name) seem to be getting smaller and smaller every year!! Hows that happening??

      Eoin

    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hi Ehab

      My favourite conspiracy is the gunpowder plot – when Guy Fawkes and his pals attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      hi ehab again!
      My favourite conspiracy is that humans have never been to the moon – that the moon landings were all filmed in a hollywood stage! This is not because i believe in them – i don’t! I just find the idea that people would believe they’re fake fascinating!!
      There is very stong evidence that people did go to the moon – one of the best websites to describe this in detail is the bad astronomy blog (google it and have a look!). So i won;t list why some of the conspiracy ideas on the moon are just crazy!
      In a way i think that the fact that the moon landing conspiracy theory won’t die away, and so many people believe in it, is in some ways a compliment to NASA and the human race. The moon landings were so amazing, such a fantastical feat by humans, that people just seem to have difficulties in believing that it can be true!

    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Ehab, it has to be the who killed JFK. So many overlapping theories, so many conflicting reports, so much good fodder for movies and books. Just goes to show how a few facts can be interpreted in many different ways, because we don’t have all the data. So different to science, where if you don’t have enough data to understand what is going on, you just rerun the experiment or do a slightly different experiment until you do have enough data….

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