Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops… all fake?!?
No way?! It can’t be?! What about all of the fossils they’ve found over the past 150+ years? Why would the Smithsonian and other institutions ever promote an extinct animal species that never really existed? What did they have to gain?
We all grew up learning about the amazing, wonderful and terrifying world of the dinosaur. Giant reptiles that roamed the earth 25-65 million years ago and have been extinct for as long.
Geez! How did their bones survive such a long period of time and stay fully intact? Why do we never find an entire dinosaur but instead just a few bones here and there… but we’ve filled in the gaps with such detail? Why do museums all over the world never show the actual bones but replicas of the ‘real thing’ and the real bones are tucked away somewhere else? Why is there nothing recorded about dinosaurs before 1842?
And what about ‘Giants’? Supersized people that may have existed in many different cultures all over the globe in various time periods that ranged from 7 to over 10 feet tall? Is everyone just telling fairy tales and stories or did extra-large people or human-like creatures once walk the planet?
These are all great questions that the Tin Foil Hat Club will investigate in the 2nd Conspiracy Theory episode here on the Strong By Design podcast show! And we just scratched the surface with our third topic of debate… to be continued!
"Once you accept the premise, your mind is then trying to create truth from that premise." — Stephen Ohocinski
Time Stamps
00:37 – Welcome to the 'Strong by Design' Podcast
01:01 – Get to know today's special guests, the Tin Foil Hat Club
04:07 – Last time with the Tin Foil Hat Club: Popular conspiracy recap!
06:30 – How stories change the world
08:15 – Conspiracy theory #1: Dinosaurs never existed?
12:01 – How what you believe shapes what you conspire
13:41 – Meet the man who invented the dinosaur
24:41 – Cui Bono? Exploring the motives behind dinosaur fakery
35:19 – 'Is Genesis History?': How science connects to the Bible
36:00 – The Tin Foil Hat Club's take on reimagining a dinosaur-free world
39:53 – Conspiracy theory #2: Were giant humans real?
48:44 – How the society benefits from hoaxing giant people
56:10 – Understanding the 'Slow Drip' theory
57:47 – Conspiracy theory #3: The unsolved mystery of JonBenét Ramsey… to be continued
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