TOP 10 CONSPIRACY THEORIES: BOOK 2 OF THE TOP 10 SERIES

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Transcript: JFK's Speech on His Religion". NPR. 5 December 2007. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016 . Retrieved 6 May 2016. Muzaffarnagar: 'Love jihad', beef bogey sparked riot flames". Hindustan Times. 12 September 2013. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014 . Retrieved 18 April 2014. Conspiracies around health have allowed people promoting natural remedies to prosper. (Image credit: Artfully79/Getty Images) Unlike many conspiracy theories, though, this one had a billionaire promoting it: Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Dodi Al-Fayed, who was killed along with Diana. Al-Fayed claims that the accident was in fact an assassination by British intelligence agencies, at the request of the Royal Family. Al-Fayed's claims were examined and dismissed as baseless by a 2006 inquiry; the following year, at Diana's inquest, the coroner stated that "The conspiracy theory advanced by Mohamed Al Fayed has been minutely examined and shown to be without any substance." On April 7, 2008, the coroner's jury concluded that Diana and Al-Fayed were unlawfully killed due to negligence by their drunken chauffeur and pursuing paparazzi, The New York Times reported. Numerous theories pertain to real or alleged weather-controlling projects. Theories include the debunked assertion that HAARP, a radio-technology research program funded by the US government, is a secret weather-controlling system. Some theorists have blamed 2005's Hurricane Katrina on HAARP. [326] HAARP has also been suggested to have somehow caused earthquakes, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami or the 2013 Saravan earthquake. [327] Some HAARP-related claims refer to mind-control technology. [328]

a b c Neuwirth, Rostam J. (2022). "The Global Regulation of "Fake News" in the Time of Oxymora: Facts and Fictions about the Covid-19 Pandemic as Coincidences or Predictive Programming?". International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. 35 (3): 831–857. doi: 10.1007/s11196-021-09840-y. PMC 8043095. PMID 33867694. a b "History's greatest conspiracy theories". The Daily Telegraph. 19 November 2008. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. These days, it seems like conspiracy theories are banded around like never before. And unfortunately, many of our family and friends have fallen victim to them. But West explains how we can help others break out of a cycle of misguided and often completely false information without judgment, condemnation, or shame. Conspiracy about George Soros Makes It to Congress". Yahoo News. 6 October 2017. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017 . Retrieved 12 December 2017. The Birds Aren't Real conspiracy is a movement developed by Peter McIndoe, 23, who started spreading the idea in 2017. Until a December 2021 interview in the New York Times, McIndoe stayed in-character as a true believer, insisting in media interviews and online that birds aren't real, but rather they are surveillance drones made by the U.S. government. Birds Aren't Real has a staff; it has organized real-life protests; it bought real-life billboards; and it emblazoned vans with their claim. The goal, says McIndoe, is to parody the misinformation that Gen Z finds itself stewing in.And hardcore believers are adept at rationalizing away evidence that contradicts their beliefs. Eyewitnesses who dispute the conclusions of even the biggest conspiracy theories are mistaken, according to believers — or part of the conspiracy. a b Introvigne, Massimo (2016). Satanism: A Social History. Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism. Vol.21. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp.370–371. ISBN 978-90-04-28828-7. a b c Bugliosi, Vincent (2007). Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp.xiv, 1273. ISBN 978-0-393-04525-3. The top conspiracy theories are often very difficult to dislodge. In part, that's because they fulfill a psychological need, Douglas said. That may be the social need to feel good about the group they belong to, the need to know the truth and have certainty, or the existential need to feel safe or feel a sense of control over what happens to us.

a b c d e Andrade, Gabriel (April 2020). "Medical conspiracy theories: Cognitive science and implications for ethics" (PDF). Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Springer on behalf of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare. 23 (3): 505–518. doi: 10.1007/s11019-020-09951-6. ISSN 1572-8633. PMC 7161434. PMID 32301040. S2CID 215787658. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 May 2020 . Retrieved 7 October 2021. Lord Lucan was fed to tiger at Howletts zoo in Canterbury, it has been claimed". Kent Online. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017 . Retrieved 29 June 2017. The "Targeted Individual" phenomenon has been featured on episodes of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura [347] and History Channel's In Search Of.... [348] False history Pope Sylvester II (from 999 to 1003) Aliyev Blames 'Armenian Lobby' For Fresh Corruption Scandal". azatutyun.am. RFE/RL. 5 September 2017. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019 . Retrieved 29 June 2019. Controversial Air Crash Conspiracy Theories". Listverse. 23 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017 . Retrieved 29 June 2017.

Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect by Mick West

Some conspiracy theorists believe the ruling class want to enslave the masses and make them eat insects. (Image credit: egal/Getty Images) Antichrist". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. War against Islam" is a conspiracy theory in Islamist discourse which describes a plot to destroy Islamic society. The alleged plotters are non-Muslims and " false Muslims" in collusion with Western powers whose efforts are a continuation of the Medieval Crusades. [156] Anti-Islamic John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963 in a Dallas motorcade. But did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? Or was there a second gunman on the grassy knoll? Heald, Henrietta (1992). Chronicle of Britain: Incorporating a Chronicle of Ireland. Jacques Legrand. p.605. ISBN 9781872031354.

For years during the 1980s and 1990s, America became convinced that an underground network of Satanists was working together to kidnap, torture and abuse children. None of it was real, but the conspiracy theories destroyed lives and livelihoods. Promoters of alternative energy theories have included Thomas Henry Moray, [340] Eugene Mallove, and convicted American fraudster Stanley Meyer. [341] WeaponryAs I argue in Conspiracy Theories, the fear of conspiracy isn’t new. From the Revolutionary period through the Cold War, major American political figures and the American public have been obsessed to varying degrees by hidden enemies from outside and within. High, middlebrow, and low culture have carried this obsession into films, novels, television shows, comic books, and games. My book helps us understand conspiracy theory’s longstanding place at America’s cultural and political core. Aaronovitch, David (2010) [2009]. Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped the Modern World. Vintage. p.82. Numerous persons, including former MI5 officer Peter Wright and Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, have alleged that former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was secretly a KGB spy. Historian Christopher Andrew has lamented that a number of people have been "seduced by Golitsyn's fantasies". [98] [99] [100] Malala Yousafzai But if Sirhan didn’t kill RFK, then who did, and why? And did his presidential brother fall victim to the same conspiratorial plot five years earlier?

Nigerian President Buhari denies death and body double rumours". BBC News. BBC. 3 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 December 2018. Ten years since Maddie's disappearance, the McCanns still face an onslaught of conspiracy theories". International Business Times. 3 May 2017. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017 . Retrieved 26 September 2017. It's no surprise that the far right are mobilising against George Soros – he's the biggest threat to their global domination". The Independent. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018 . Retrieved 20 December 2017. Guardian Staff (3 December 2018). " 'It's the real me': Nigerian president denies dying and being replaced by clone". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 December 2018.Pakistani Islamist politician claims Malala was not injured". The Daily Telegraph. 5 November 2012. Archived from the original on 3 December 2017 . Retrieved 5 April 2018. Such allegations have attached to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2004 Madrid train bombings, [198] and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. [199] Harold Wilson resignation 'linked to MI6, burglary and insider trading' ". The Times. 22 August 2008. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017 . Retrieved 8 November 2017. In principle, conspiracy theories might not always be false, and their validity depends on evidence as for any theory. However, they are often implausible prima facie due to their convoluted and all-encompassing nature. [3] Louis Tomlinson said fan conspiracies about him and Harry Styles put a strain on the pair's friendship. (Image credit: Mike Marsland/Getty Images)