Browse Conspiracy Theories

Claims that COVID-19 vaccines were designed to kill, sterilize, or depopulate recipients.

Claims popularized by the film Died Suddenly that vaccines caused mass unexplained deaths and fibrous clots.

Claims that HIV does not cause AIDS or that antiretroviral therapy is the real cause of AIDS.

Claims that wildfires are caused by directed-energy weapons rather than weather, fuel, power lines, arson, or climate conditions.

The documented large-scale pharmaceutical cover-up of opioid addiction risk by Purdue Pharma (OxyContin), Insys (Subsys), Mallinckrodt, and related firms — contributing to over 700,000 US opioid-related deaths since 1999.

The claim that 5G cellular technology causes harm to human health — cancer, COVID-19 infection, or population control — popularized during COVID-19 pandemic and amplified by social media.

Wirecard AG, a German fintech (payments processing) once valued at €24B, collapsed in June 2020 after admitting that €1.9B in reported assets "probably did not exist." Multi-year accounting fraud involving forged trust accounts in the Philippines and Singapore.

The documented, decades-long effort by fossil-fuel companies (ExxonMobil, Shell, Koch Industries) and associated think tanks to deliberately manufacture doubt about climate science — well-documented through internal documents, industry memos, and legal discovery.

The claim, promoted by Soviet KGB disinformation Operation Denver/INFEKTION (1983-1987) and subsequent circulation, that HIV/AIDS was created by the US CIA or US Army Fort Detrick biological weapons program.

The 1950s-60s marketing of thalidomide (sedative, anti-nausea for pregnant women) by Chemie Grünenthal (Germany), Distillers (UK), and Richardson-Merrell (US) despite internal knowledge of risks, resulting in ~10,000 birth defects worldwide and a major documented corporate cover-up.

The April 2016 leak of 11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed an international network of offshore shell companies used by politicians, celebrities, and criminals for tax evasion, money laundering, and concealing ownership.

The documented failure and subsequent cover-up of the police response to the May 24, 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and 2 teachers were killed. Officers waited in the hallway for 77 minutes while the shooter remained in a classroom with surviving children and their mothers pleading outside.

The July 17, 2014 destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 (Boeing 777) over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. The Dutch Safety Board investigation and Joint Investigation Team (JIT) concluded the aircraft was shot down by a Russian-owned Buk surface-to-air missile system from a field in Russian-separatist-controlled Donbas.

The October 1, 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas, which killed 60 and wounded over 400 — the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Various conspiracy theories claim multiple shooters, ISIS involvement, MGM/security cover-up, or government-directed false-flag operations.

The long-documented relationship between Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the US Central Intelligence Agency, including his role as a paid CIA asset (1967-1988) while simultaneously trafficking cocaine, running intelligence operations, and aiding US anti-communist operations in Latin America.

The concealment by Boeing of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) from pilots and regulators, which caused two fatal crashes — Lion Air 610 (October 2018, 189 killed) and Ethiopian Airlines 302 (March 2019, 157 killed) — and led to a 20-month global grounding.

The Bush administration's 2002-2003 claim that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had operational ties to al-Qaeda, used as a central justification for the 2003 US invasion. The 9/11 Commission, Senate Intelligence Committee reports, and a 2006 Pentagon IG report all concluded no such operational relationship existed.

The false claim that the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was staged by the US government or involved "crisis actors" rather than being conducted by the Tsarnaev brothers. The real bombing killed 3 people and injured 260+.

The 2014-2019 lead contamination of Flint, Michigan's drinking water following a cost-saving switch from Detroit water supply to the Flint River, and the systematic suppression of evidence by state officials.

The US military's use of Agent Orange herbicide in Vietnam (1961-1971) and the decades-long effort by the VA and chemical manufacturers to deny connections to veteran illnesses — cancers, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's, peripheral neuropathy.

The October 2, 2018 assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The US Intelligence Community's February 2021 declassified assessment concluded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation.

The false claim, most prominently promoted by Alex Jones and Infowars, that the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was staged by "crisis actors" to justify gun control legislation. The shooting killed 20 first-graders and 6 adults.

The claim that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin is an effective COVID-19 treatment being suppressed by pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and hospitals to protect vaccine profits.

A fabricated antisemitic text, first published in Russia in 1903, claiming to document a Jewish plan for world domination. Extensively proven a forgery — plagiarized from Maurice Joly's 1864 Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (a satire about Napoleon III, not Jews).