Dean, Signe (23 October 2017). "Conspiracy Theorists Really Do See The World Differently, New Study Shows". Science Alert . Retrieved 17 June 2020. Flat Earth theory first emerged in 19th-century England, despite the Earth's spherical nature having been known since at least the time of Pythagoras. It has in recent years been promoted by American software consultant Mark Sargent through the use of YouTube videos. [333] Flat-earther conspiracy theorists hold that planet Earth is not a sphere, and that evidence has been faked or suppressed to hide the fact that it is instead a disc, or a single infinite plane. The conspiracy often implicates NASA. Other claims include that GPS devices are rigged to make aircraft pilots wrongly believe they are flying around a globe. [334] [335] RFID chips An RFID tag, exposed by the damage to this Oyster card 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? In January 2020, BBC News published an article about SARS-CoV-2 misinformation, citing two 24 January articles in The Washington Times that said the virus was part of a Chinese biological weapons program, based at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). [279]

Geheimbotschaften in der Jeanshose". tagesspiegel. 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 4 December 2017 . Retrieved 5 December 2017. 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. Okbi, Yasser (16 October 2013). "Hezbollah: We have captured an Israeli 'spy eagle' in Lebanon". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016 . Retrieved 27 January 2016. All of this is built, according to the theorists, on top of a six-story deep bunker where the elites will hunker down to ride out the end of the world. Or maybe it's a prison for dissenters. Of course, there's no evidence of anything beneath the airport besides maintenance tunnels, a baggage transport system, and harried travelers moving between terminals on an underground train. But that doesn't stop those who want to believe in something more nefarious beneath this airline hub.

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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. Obama the antichrist? Global warming a myth? Lizard people controlling the world? Conspiracy theory research reveals bizarre beliefs prevalent in US". The Independent. 4 April 2013. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 20 December 2017. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down from pro-Russian rebel controlled territory, investigation finds". Sydney Morning Herald. 29 September 2016. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019 . Retrieved 3 December 2018.

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One instance of promoting the "mastermind" conspiracy theory occurred in February 2017, when then- Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek claimed that earthquakes in the western province of Çanakkale could have been organized by dark external powers aiming to destroy Turkey's economy with an "artificial earthquake" near Istanbul. [94] In another example, in November 2017, the Islamist newspaper Yeni Akit claimed that the fashion trend of "ripped denim" jeans was in fact a means of communication, via specific forms of rips and holes, between agents of foreign states and their collaborators in Turkey. [95] Espionage Israel animal spying Morgan, Clive (13 October 2016). "Roswell and the world's other great conspiracy theories". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018 . Retrieved 5 April 2018.Here, a real image of Buzz Aldrin saluting the U.S. flag on the surface of the moon. (Image credit: NASA) Promoters of alternative energy theories have included Thomas Henry Moray, [340] Eugene Mallove, and convicted American fraudster Stanley Meyer. [341] Weaponry Weems, Samuel A. 2002. Armenia: secrets of a Christian terrorist state. The Armenian Great deception series, v. 1. Dallas: St. John Press.

Mahanta, Siddhartha (5 September 2014). "India's Fake 'Love Jihad' ". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015 . Retrieved 24 November 2015. Holocaust denial is also considered an antisemitic conspiracy theory, claiming that the Nazi extermination of European Jews is a hoax designed to win sympathy for Jews and justify the creation of the State of Israel. [111] [112] Holocaust deniers include former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, [113] the convicted chemist Germar Rudolf [114] and the discredited author David Irving. [115] Levy, Richard (2005). Antisemitism: a historical encyclopedia of prejudice. p.55. ISBN 978-1-85109-439-4.a b "Bring out the cranks and conspiracy theorists". Financial Times. 7 August 2009. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017 . Retrieved 18 December 2017.