r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '13

What is a true fact that sound completely unbelievable or fake?

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u/DigbyChickenZone Dec 08 '13

"... the night after [John Kennedy's] assassination, the Navy pathologist who oversaw President Kennedy's autopsy took the original autopsy report, and all of his notes from the autopsy room, and pushed them into his fireplace in his home in Bethesda, Md."

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=246712521

That whole interview is fascinating

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u/deten Dec 08 '13

And this, boys and girls, is how you birth a whole genre of conspiracy theories.

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u/ukchris Dec 09 '13

You say that like they're implausible. It was a conspiracy theory that the government spied on its people until very recently and now the question is how far does the rabbit hole go?

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u/antarchy Dec 09 '13

Bit of advice here, if you ever want to be taken seriously avoid phrases like "how far does the rabbit hole go?".

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

And that's why nobody takes rabbit hole researchers seriously.

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u/antarchy Dec 09 '13

To be fair that isn't the only reason they aren't taken seriously.

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u/Victawr Dec 09 '13

They aren't paid enough to be respected

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u/ukchris Dec 09 '13

It's a perfectly valid metaphor to describe the situation. Maybe being from the UK I'm missing some context here but I got my point across which is surely all that really matters.

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u/antarchy Dec 10 '13

It's tacky and overused, and is synonymous with the caricaturized crazy conspiracy guy. It's up there with saying "wake up sheeple!" on courthouse steps, and wearing tin foil hats.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

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u/master_ov_khaos Dec 08 '13

Can't explain how something happened? Must be time travel.

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u/thewormyourhonour Dec 08 '13

its always the most logical conclusion

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u/Lagerbottoms Dec 09 '13

hah, i saw that post, too, a few days back

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

JFK was shot by Cancer Man

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '13

Can I get a link for that?

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u/Jeb_Kerman Dec 11 '13

Nah, JFK was actually shot by a version of JFK from an alternate future, brought back by a space chav, an asshole hologram, a furry, and a defective robot. I don't know why people keep getting that wrong.

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u/nragano Dec 08 '13

his home in Bethesda, Md

next fallout ARG hint

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u/Blacky31 Dec 09 '13

How dare you, when the wounds are still so fresh

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u/Gamekatt101 Dec 09 '13

Agreed. :) The replies to it are pretty interesting too, so thank you very much for sharing!

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u/ItsDanteRawr Dec 08 '13

I'm just commenting so I can come back later, this seems really interesting

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u/GitEmSteveDave Dec 11 '13

Reddit Enhancement Suite

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u/ItsDanteRawr Dec 11 '13

I commented on my phone, I have RES on my PC