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Top Tech Hoaxes Of All defeat world champion Garry Kasparov some has been convicted fraudster Kevin Trudeau.
200 years later. The ruse was eventually
Time revealed by a subsequent owner: The Turk used Artificial Diseases

old stage magic tricks and a sliding seat to Scientists believe that HIV was
conceal the human chess player hidden within. transferred from monkeys to humans in the
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1930s. Evidence exists, however, that the KGB
Conspiracy Theories deliberately disseminated a notion in the 1980s
10. The tauntaun sleeping bag
that it was invented by the CIA. This idea, and
In keeping with the Star Wars theme, a
similar ideas concerning Ebola, have since been
public policy initiative rose to the level of Continued from Page 76 promoted by persons such as actor Steven
classic hoax last year. The federalWe The People
Seagal, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
website allows any citizen to file a petition on
and former South Africa President Thabo
any issue. Gather enough signatures, and the
Sutherland Springs Mbeki. Similar conspiracy theories allege that
petition will be reviewed. When more than pharmaceutical companies assist in the creation
25,000 signed a petition for the U.S. government The 2017 Sutherland Springs church
shooting has also been the subject of multiple of conditions and diseases including ADHD,
to build a Death Star, the press got involved, and
conspiracy theories. The shooter has been linked HSV and HPV.
White House technology adviser Paul
to multiple conspiracies, such as identifying him
Shawcross issued a reply. The salient points:
"The Administration does not support blowing as a Democrat, Hillary supporter, Bernie Fluoridation
Sanders supporter, Alt-left supporter, Antifa Water fluoridation is the controlled
up planets" and "why would we spend countless
member, or radical Muslim; or claiming that he addition of fluoride to a public water supply to
taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a
fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one- carried an Antifa flag and told churchgoers, reduce tooth decay. Although many dental-
man starship?" Solid jokes for a science adviser. "This is a communist revolution." Some reports health organizations support such fluoridation,
also falsely claimed that he targeted the church the practice is opposed by conspiracy theorists.
because they were "white conservatives". Allegations may include claims that it has been
11. The "Death Star" petition
a way to dispose of industrial waste, or that it
The concept of automatons (mechanical
men, basically) was hugely fashionable among Medicine exists to obscure a failure to provide dental care
to the poor. A further theory promoted by the
the nerdy hipster set in the 18th century. In 1770, John Birch Society in the 1960s described
Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen Alternative therapy suppression
fluoridation as a Communist plot to weaken the
unveiled his Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing A 2013 study approved by the University
American population.
automaton that the inventor claimed could think, of Chicago suggested that almost half of
plan, reason, and defeat all comers in the sacred Americans believe at least one medical
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game of chess. For more than 50 years, The Turk conspiracy theory, with 37% believing that the
toured Europe and America, baffling chess Food and Drug Administration deliberately
professionals and VIPs like Benjamin Franklin suppresses 'natural' cures due to influence from Join Rob McConnell in The ’X’ Zone
and Napoleon I. But the Mechanical Turk was the pharmaceutical industry. A prominent www.xzoneradiotv.com
no Deep Blue, the IBM computer that would proponent of comparable conspiracy theories