Conspiracy Theories and Hoaxes

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In October 1969, a rumour began circling that Paul McCartney, one of The Beatles, died in a car crash in late 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike. Proponents of the theory, which is commonly referred to as the Paul is dead hoax, cite “clues” in the form of peculiar album covers, possible symbolism in strange lyrics, and backmasking.

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The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also known as 7/7, were a series of coordinated suicide attacks on London’s public transport system during the morning rush hour. The bombings were carried out by three Muslim Pakistani British men and one British citizen of Jamaican descent who had converted to Islam, all of whom were motivated by Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War.

There are various conspiracy theories about the bombings, including the suggestion that the bombers were ‘patsies’, based on claims about timings of the underground trains and the train from Luton, supposed explosions under the carriages, and allegations of the faking of a photograph of the bombers. A survey of 500 British Muslims by Channel 4 News found that 24% believed that the four men blamed for the attacks did not carry them out.

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The concept of black helicopters became popular in the United States militia movement, and in associated political circles, in the 1990s as an alleged symbol and warning sign of a conspiratorial military takeover of part or all of the United States. Rumors would circulate that, for instance, the United Nations patrolled the US with black helicopters, or that federal agents used black helicopters to enforce wildlife laws.

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a plagiarism, literary forgery, and hoax with a complex publication history. It appeared in print in the Russian empire (in Russian) as early as 1903. The tract was published in Znamya, a newspaper owned by Pavel Krushevan, as a serialized set of articles. It appeared again in 1905 as a final chapter (Chapter XII) of a second edition of a book, by Serge Nilus, about the Antichrist. In 1906 it appeared in pamphlet form edited by G. Butmi.

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There are theories that the “Peak Oil” concept is a fraud concocted by the oil industries to increase prices amid concerns about future supplies. The oil industry is aware of vast reserves of untapped oil, according to these theories, but it deliberately refuses to utilize them in order to maintain the illusion of scarcity.

The alleged presence of large quantities of oil has led to increased interest in the Western world in a theory of the origin of oil that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s in the Soviet Union and Ukraine—the Abiogenic petroleum origin theory.

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The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge debate is a dispute over what, if any, advance knowledge American officials had of Japan’s December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Several writers, including journalist Robert Stinnett and former United States Navy Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, have argued that various parties high in the U.S. and British governments knew of the attack in advance and may even have let it happen or encouraged it in order to force America into war via the “back door.” Evidence supporting this view is taken from quotations and source documents from the time and the release of newer materials.

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