Gulf of Tonkin

The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories

Danielle Mercy

Society & Culture, History

4.1 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It's easy to believe in conspiracy theories when some of them come true. In this weeks episode, we discuss what a conspiracy theory is and prove that some come true with the Guld of Tonkin incident. This incident started US involvement in the Vietnam War. A total of 90,220 servicemembers were lost during this war. And all for what? Links mentioned in this episode: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gulf-of-tonkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crALHjTiXbk https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/factsheets/fs_americas_wars.pdf Book: American Conspiracies and Cover-Ups by Douglas Cirignano Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.4	Are we crazy for believing in conspiracy theories? Or do we just look around and see that not everything they tell us is true?
1:07.1	Are we skeptics? Or has some of the theories we believed in come true? Hi everyone. Welcome to the very first episode of The Rabbit Hole. I'm your host, Danny
1:36.7	Mercy, and today you're going to follow me down the rabbit hole of the Gulf of Tonkin
1:40.7	incident. And this actually can perfectly explain why we as a society believe in
1:46.8	conspiracy theories. So let's start with what is a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy theory is a
1:51.9	belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for a circumstance or event.
1:58.4	So most of the time today in our society, we believe that the government
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