Conspiracy Theories: A Guide to the World's Most Intriguing Mysteries

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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. Cresci, Elena (16 May 2017). "Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone named Melissa". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 March 2020. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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Trump Is Still Touting the Obama 'Birther' Conspiracy Theory Behind Closed Doors". Yahoo News. 29 November 2017. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017 . Retrieved 29 November 2017.

Kay, Jane; Chronicle Environment Writer (6 July 2009). "San Francisco Bay Area". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 27 April 2011 . Retrieved 3 August 2010.China's rulers see the coronavirus as a chance to tighten their grip". The Economist. 8 February 2020. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020 . Retrieved 29 February 2020. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Pope John Paul I died in September 1978, only a month after his election to the papacy. The timing of his death and the Vatican's alleged difficulties with ceremonial and legal death procedures has fostered several conspiracy theories. Such ideas have always had a particular attraction for me. They exist at a curious intersection between fictional and historical interpretations of events, highlighting how much of what we understand as “history” is a partial narrative, a story based on a selective interpretation of facts. In a way, each conspiracy theory – like a story – attempts to simplify the complexity of an event into a stable, unified narrative, with a clearly traceable agency and explicable motive. As a result, the conspiracy theory tends to assert itself with a stronger sense of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong. The writer of fiction does something a little similar, but with no pretence to revealing the truth. The best novelists, it seems to me, use conspiracy theories to show complexity and explore the doubts, confusions and uncertainties that haunt every official account of “what really happened”.

Jeffrey R. Henig and Wilbur C. Rich, Mayors in the middle: politics, race, and mayoral control of urban schools. Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 204–207. Ramírez, Jason (9 December 2016). "We Now Interrupt this Program: Pre-Empting the Apocalypse in ABC's Miracles". In George Fragopoulos; Liliana M. Naydan (eds.). Terror in Global Narrative. Palgrave Macmillan. pp.175–189. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-40654-1_10. ISBN 978-3-319-40654-1 . Retrieved 11 November 2022. The disappearance, and often presumed death, of an individual may also become a cause for conspiracy theorists. Theories of a cover-up surrounding the 1974 disappearance of Lord Lucan following the murder of his family's nanny include, for example, allegations of a suicide plot whereby his body was fed to tigers at Howletts Zoo. [64] [65] [66] Numerous conspiracy theories have also attended the 2007 disappearance of English girl Madeleine McCann. [67] Aaronovitch, David (2010) [2009]. Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped the Modern World. Vintage. p.82.Sykes, Leslie (17 May 2009). "Angels & Demons Causing Serious Controversy". KFSN-TV/ ABC News. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011 . Retrieved 27 January 2011. Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously". BBC News. 27 May 2021 . Retrieved 26 June 2021. Berlet, Chip (July 2012). "Collectivists, Communists, Labor Bosses, and Treason: The Tea Parties as Right-Wing Populist Counter-Subversion Panic". Critical Sociology. 38 (4): 565–87. doi: 10.1177/0896920511434750. S2CID 144238367.