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9/11 was an inside job - not the dumbest take because we have had the CIA say that events like 9/11 are a good way to establish government control and we've tried things like this. so this isn't out there, governments have done this, there was a gross level of incompetence, there was a crackdown on data, and thein-fighting that makes this, at surface and a few layers in, seem very plausible. so not that dumb.

Moon landing was faked - this one i think is made a bit unfair because at the time it was much more reasonable, basically everything para said earlier. nowadays, not so much. not that dumb. however it's often tied to...

Earth is flat - ...which is significantly dumber. i don't have much defense here, this one is by far the most confusing one to have lasted as long as it has.

Aliens are in Area 51 - so the main thing here is that there's two modifiers to make this specific claim unreasonable but they aren't the ones that really matter at the core. "Government has aliens in a military base" is what's really being said here in the end, whether it's Area 51 or that they used to be there but aren't anymore aren't pertinent to anyone believing this. and at that point it's basically "are aliens real and have we captured them/their materials," of which there's definitely been a lot of government work in searching for and hiding evidence of this, including that recent Pentagon report saying we've got access to material that is not of this planet. so surface level, kinda dumb, what's actually meant/cared about, not dumb at all.

Something something 5G towers - this one's the main fight against flat earthers on this scale. pretty fucking dumb.

Pizzagate - Podesta is a creep, aligned with creepy people, and Epstein/Maxwell have proven there is, at the very least, a notable pedo ring involving global elites and human trafficking, of which Bill Clinton definitely is more involved with than not (see: 27 times on Lolita Express, claims that yes he was on the island). much like the area 51 situation the specifics aren't as pertinent to the claims really being made here but due to a mix of recency bias and the location being a random pizza place, stands out more. but at least the underlying principle here has some truth to it. surface level, pretty dumb, what's meant/cared for, not dumb.

Climate change is a hoax - this one we've seen the goalpost move in our lifetime because it was so dumb. eventually it shifted to "yes there's climate change but how much is man-made?" and i mean, it's still an obvious "a lot" but this is a fair one to use because the initial claim really was that the entire thing was a hoax and only later modified. if you're going for the general spirit of it then that's what you've got and... i guess it's mostly out of ignorance to what we can do to the planet at a massive level? which isn't nearly as bad. initial claim, so dumb it forced a retraction to a not as dumb position.

Vaccines are bad, don't take them - there's some truth to them depending on what it is and where you are. i mean just two months ago the UN gave people polio through oral vaccines by accident. i don't think it's that uncommon to hear something along the lines of 'the only time i've gotten the flu is when i got the vaccine' either, which is a distrust on an unreliable vaccine. but unlike the other cases what's really meant here is actually worse since it's either tied back to mercury due to 1950s stuff, this idea that they need to be more spread out because the body can't handle all of them in the pace they're delivered (which at least sounds plausible on the surface), or autism. at the surface this one's got a bit more pause because there's something to it and you can easily find stuff but deeper down it's worse. biggest point to its favor on the dumb scale is that there at least is a now discredited doctor involved here. surface level makes it not as dumb, deeper in, pretty dumb. but this ties to...

COVID is a hoax, don't wear masks - this is recency bias on full blast. yeah it's dumb. obviously. there isn't even anything to defend this one besides claims that would work for any pandemic. but it's still not as dumb as 5G towers causing COVID and that's already an option.

JFK assassination was an inside job - this is straight up plausible.

edit - two ranking types. ranking based on the specific wording:
climate change >= flat earth > 5G towers >> COVID > pizzagate = area 51 > vaccines > 9/11 > moon landing > JFK

focusing on what's meant by these:
flat earth > 5G towers >> climate change >= COVID > vaccines > 9/11 > moon landing > pizzagate > area 51 > JFK


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