Take a fresh look at the global story that has dominated the mainstream media for the past two years with this eye-opening (or eye-watering, depending on your stance) book from Doctor Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins. Trump says he 'wouldn't be surprised' if unfounded conspiracy theory about George Soros funding caravan is true". The Washington Post. 1 November 2018. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018 . Retrieved 15 November 2018. Much of this line of conspiracy theory has been stimulated by a debunked book titled The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982), which claimed that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were lovers and that their offspring and descendants were secretly hidden in Europe following the death of Jesus, from whom the then-living French draughtsman Pierre Plantard claimed descent. Interest in this hoax saw a resurgence following the publication of Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code. [154] A comparable theory, New Chronology, is associated with Russian theorist Anatoly Fomenko, who holds that history is many centuries shorter than widely believed, numerous historical documents have been fabricated, and legitimate documents destroyed, all for political ends. Adherents of have included chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. [350] The conspiracy was described in a 1976 self-published book, "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle," and a 1978 movie, "Capricorn One." Even as late as 2001, there was a Fox documentary, "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" that gave air time to the claims that the whole Apollo moon-landing program was faked.

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. Undermining Sushant Rajput's tragic death". Hindustan Times. 22 July 2020 . Retrieved 22 August 2020.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 In 1853, the Scottish minister Alexander Hislop published his anti-Catholic pamphlet The Two Babylons, [134] in which he claims that the Catholic Church is secretly a continuation of the pagan religion of ancient Babylon, the product of a millennia-old conspiracy founded by the Biblical king Nimrod and the Assyrian queen Semiramis. [134] It also claims that modern Catholic holidays, including Christmas and Easter, are actually pagan festivals established by Semiramis and that the customs associated with them are pagan rituals. Modern scholars have unanimously rejected the book's arguments as erroneous and based on a flawed understanding of Babylonian religion, [134] but variations of them are still accepted among some groups of evangelical Protestants. [134] The Jehovah's Witnesses periodical The Watchtower frequently published excerpts from it until the 1980s. [135] The book's thesis has also featured prominently in the conspiracy theories of racist groups, such as The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord. [136]

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The experiment revealed that conspiracies sometimes grow by credulity: Local media sometimes reported on Birds Aren't Real as if it was something young people really believed rather than an elaborate joke. Birds Aren't Real organizers hope the joke will become a force for good by exposing all the ways misinformation thrives. Jenkins, Philip (1 April 2003). The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. Oxford University Press. p.23. ISBN 978-0-19-515480-1. The term ‘Manchurian Candidate’ hails from Richard Condon’s 1959 novel about an unwilling citizen brainwashed into becoming a political assassin. Yet former State Department officer John D. Marks argues that this seemingly far-fetched concept is anything but fiction. 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.

Masonic Conspiracy Theories". HuffPost. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 June 2015 . Retrieved 29 November 2017. 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. Turkish minister says Russian media run by Armenians, German media not free". Hürriyet Daily News. 7 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016 . Retrieved 13 June 2016. Promoters of alternative energy theories have included Thomas Henry Moray, [340] Eugene Mallove, and convicted American fraudster Stanley Meyer. [341] Weaponry Love Jihad' and religious conversion polarise in Modi's India". Reuters. 4 September 2014. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017 . Retrieved 8 November 2017.Gillin, Joshua (26 May 2017). "Conspiracy theory that Comey hid Seth Rich's ties to WikiLeaks based on retracted story". PolitiFact.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018 . Retrieved 25 April 2018. Birds Aren't Real is not a shallow satire of conspiracies from the outside. It is from the deep inside," he told The New York Times. "A lot of people in our generation feel the lunacy in all this, and Birds Aren't Real has been a way for people to process that." Eco’s fiendishly complex novel presents us with a mind-boggling array of esoteric conspiracies, from the Freemasons and the Bavarian Illuminati to Opus Dei. The novel concerns a spoof conspiracy theory, “the Plan”, created by three publishers who find their invention has gained a mysterious life of its own. Like Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code, the novel draws on the Rennes-le-Château mythologies about the Ark of the Covenant. But Eco’s treatment is vastly more sophisticated, showing how such conspiracy theories can seduce the sceptical and credulous alike.