In the 1990s, Canadian journalist Serge Monast introduced Project Blue Beam, a conspiracy theory alleging that powerful global interests could manufacture a fake alien invasion or religious event to ...

It was from those words, written 15 years ago, that I discovered that the end of the world had been forecast for this Friday, December 21, 2012. It’s likely that I wasn’t alone; the dialogue, spoken ...

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A five-year study dispels the stereotype of conspiracy theorists as angry loners or keyboard warriors. Rather, social and emotional connections provided by conspiracy theorists are recruiting diverse ...

Four percent of Americans – roughly 12 million people – believe that “lizard people” secretly control the Earth. At least, that was the finding of an infamous 2013 public opinion survey. Do so many ...