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Conspiracy Theories: Topic Ideas & Resources

Topics

TOPIC IDEAS

  • Flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico
  • The government covered up alien abductions from Area 51 in Nevada
  • NASA faked the 1969 moon landing
  • Aliens constructed world wonders (Pyramids, Easter Islands, etc)
  • Aliens are real
  • Any supernatural being is real (ghosts, vampires, Big Foot, witches, etc. – choose one)
  • Earth is flat
  • Chem Trails
  • Paul McCartney (from The Beatles) died in 1966 and was replaced by an impersonator
  • Lee Harvey Oswald was not responsible for the Kennedy assassination (or at least did not act alone)
  • Elvis Presley is not really dead
  • Marilyn Monroe did not really die of a drug overdose. John F. Kennedy had her murdered
  • Kurt Cobain (of Nirvana) did not commit suicide. He was murdered
  • Electronic banking is being used by the government to steal people’s identities
  • The AIDS virus was created in laboratory
  • Lyme Disease was created as a biological weapon
  • Fluoride (ingredient in toothpaste) is actually harmful for people
  • Global Warming
  • Vaccines are not healthy
  • The reptilian elite: the most powerful people in the world are actually shape-shifting, reptilian aliens
  • Princess Diana was murdered.
  • The government knew Pearl Harbor was going to happen.
  • The government knew 9/11/01 was going to happen.
  • Pan Am Flight 103
  • Big Pharma is keeping actual cures from the public
  • Holocaust denial
  • New World Order is trying to run the entire world (This could be a pretty large undertaking)
  • The government is listening to our homes through devices such as Alexa and Siri
  • Bermuda Triangle
  • Jim Morrison's (The Doors) death
  • Loch Ness Monster
  • Crop Circles

Research

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Website Reliability

When deciding whether or not to use a source, consider the following:

Author or Organization – does the page have an author listed?  If it’s a group, is it a group that would be reliable? 

Date of Publication, Edition, and/or Revision – Is the website up-to-date or outdated?

Intended audience – Who is audience for this site? Are you a member of that audience?

Bias – Is the resource advocating or promoting one particular viewpoint or do they acknowledge and represent multiple points of view?

Citations – Does the resource have its own list of citations?

Writing style – Are there writing errors or spelling mistakes? Is the website written informally? Is the author providing factual information or providing their own opinion.