Even if you're not conspiracy minded, the most extreme form of scapegoating is to blame the victim rather than the offender for a course of events. 33 CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE. 1. The Dreyfus Affair 2. The Mafia 3. MK-ULTRA 4. Operation Mockingbird 5. Manhattan Project 6. Asbestos 7. Watergate 8. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study 9.