We've got a bunch of new people now so let's bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?
I'll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being "creepy" through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)
Ancient historians actually got most things right, we just teach that they didn't because capitalists want people to think the world works in boring ways only experts can understand. Nah man, Rome was called that because Romulus founded it. Simple as.
If herodotus says this ancient battle had a million soldiers then I believe him
Herodotus was the founder of history, I'm just some guy. I'm not gonna question him.
Recent scholarship has found out that Herodotus was probably right about a lot more than he was given credit for. Like some stuff that sounded flatly ridiculous turned out to be translation errors or regional idioms. Afaik the dude was the real deal - He interviewed people with first hand knowledge about the subjects being discussed, did some basic evaluation of the credibility of his sources, stuff like that.