Conspiracy Theories

I have an unhealthy obsession.  I'm obsessed with Conspiracy Theories.  I find it amazing that million of Americans spend millions of dollars on books, videos, lectures and products that are related to even the most absurd conspiracy theories out there.

Here is a list of my current favorite theories:

• Vaccination causes Autism (Nope. it doesn't.  Mercury doesn't either.  Vaccination saves lives.  Those who push this garbage are causing real, serious harm to the world.)
• 9/11 MIHOP/LIHOP.  (Nope, this is ridiculous on the face of it and there is absolutely ZERO actual evidence that either of these "theories" have any basis in reality.  You are insulting the memory of the people who died that day.  The US Government does enough bad things every day without the people having to invent things.  Just stop it.)
• JFK and the "Magic Bullet" (Oswald killed Kennedy.  On his own.  Read the damned Warren Commission report rather than the latest CT nuttiness.  It's an incredible piece of American history and incredibly detailed.)
• Chemtrails. (They are contrails.  Anyone who says differently is selling something or simply full of shit.  This one is so stupid that a skeptic went out and literally invented a new species of intelligent life called Sylphs and claimed that chemtrails were killing these "gentle, beautiful, invisible" creatures, as an example of how silly the theory was.  Shockingly and very sadly, the people who buy into the chemtrail theory now actually believe in Sylphs).
• Reptiloids. (Are you serious?  Does anyone actually believe this?  Sadly yes.)
• UFO. (Seriously people.  The universe is big. Really big.  The chances of an alien race being able to defeat the laws of physics and then deciding to come here are remote to say the least.  If they could do this, do you really think they would need to kidnap people to study?  How about just hitting a grave and doing a genetic sequencing?  Heck, why not just simply grab the entire Internet and have pretty much the sum total of human knowledge at their fingertips?  Nah, we'll kidnap some poor schmuck and study that guy.  Oh and we'll bring him back.  Our government can't balance a budget, but they can hide aliens?  Aliens can travel interstellar distances yet can't hide themselves from a cheap video camera? Please.)

This is just the beginning.  There are tons of them out there and I find the entire thing to be fascinating.  How and why are people so stupid and ignorant?  Why do people buy into this stuff?  I'll never understand it.