Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences

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Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences

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Conspiracy theorists like to see themselves as noble truth-seekers, starring in their own investigative reality shows. The thing is, what can seem like harmless speculation can cause a huge, horrifying backlash that ruins people's lives.

Chris Bovey posted a video with evidence of chemtrails, toxic chemicals sprayed from planes, then explained it was meant to poke fun at believing in
THE KNOW-NOTHING MOVEMENT believed the 19th-century wave of Catholic immigrants was a PLOT BY THE POPE to take over the United States and destroy the
Days after Leonard Pozner lost his son, Noah, in the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, theories that the whole incident was staged by actors started emergin
Claiming the West was deliberately attempting to cause outbreaks of HIV and infertility, many religious and political leaders in Nigeria encouraged a
LOVE ALLINEED IS Earlier this year, an Australian woman whose baby had tragically died was inundated with online comments from nti-vaxxers (those who
Braden Matejka survived getting shot in the head during the Las Vegas shooting, only to have people bombard his social media accounts with conspiracy
5 After reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television along with her cameraman, her boyfriend Chris Hurts has become the target of harassment

Vaccines

The rise of the nti-vaxxer movement caused the resurgence of various preventable diseases. Reduced vaccination rates in Europe and America paved the w
At least two people have been arrested on separate occasions for plotting or threatening to kill Barack @bama... ...because they thought he was the An
Brennan Gilmore captured the shocking footage of a white supremacist plowing his car through protesters in Charlottesville. Virginia: and within hours
Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
An environmentalist group claimed that it was not Zika virus that caused microcephaly; it was a pesticide known as pyriproxyfen. Farmers in Pernambuco

Michael Mann

Michael Mann, a climate scientist, was just doing his job when he began receiving death threats from people who didn't believe that climate change was
The idea promulgated by the Alt-Right--thal the Obama administration was pro-Islamist and secretly conspiring with both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherho

AIDS Deniers

Dumb Conspiracy Theories With Awful Real-World Consequences
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