As a recovering mainstream journalist and an ancient fan of The big book of Conspiracy Theories everything you know is a lie shirt, here’s a thought that has seemed increasingly true to me over recent years: Anything mainstream and part of conventional wisdom are most likely to be false; whereas things sneered at as mere conspiracy theories are quite likely to be true. We used to laugh at conspiracy theorists, but from Fifa to banking scandals and the Iraq War, it seems they might have been on to something, after all, says Alex Proud.
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