Conspiracy Theory News

It appears to be the stuff of which conspiracy theories are made. Yet it continues to haunt the informational folds of cyberspace.

While the Ghana Police Service continues to investigate the murder of artiste manager Fennec Okyere and possibly fish out his killers, the homicide has sparked speculations within Ghana's entertainment sector in a quest to unravel the mystery.

The facts are so muddied about what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370 that I've deliberately steered away from the subject for the past week.

On Thursday we wrote that some commentators have been sharply criticising the Malaysian government for its handling of the disappearance of flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

In an incident where nothing can be ruled out, is it a surprise that some relatives of the passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are hoping it is a hijacking? To some it is a far-fetched conspiracy theory, and to others, it represents the only scenario that leaves open the possibility of seeing their loved ones alive.

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In an incident where nothing can be ruled out, is it a surprise that some relatives of the passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are hoping it is a hijacking? To some it is a far-fetched conspiracy theory, and to others, it represents the only scenario that leaves open the possibility of seeing their loved ones alive.

Harlem pastor and congressional candidate Mike Walrond insisted last night that he doesn't think the government infected African-Americans with AIDS, despite a report indicating he found the theory "credible."

The authorities can't find 200 tons of twisted metal or their own backside with a map, says Fleet Street Fox They can locate a smartphone to within a few metres, or put a missile up an individual member of the Taliban.

The Parti Quebecois' candidate in Gouin is being accused of propagating an urban legend that, one Jewish group says, was originally drafted by the Ku Klux Klan.

It is hard to say if there was anything as mysterious and perplexing in the news in recent times as the case of the missing Malaysian flight MH370.

Six days after it went off the radar, innumerable conspiracy theories float around over what may have possibly gone wrong with the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft just hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8. The latest "red herring" for the investigators is the satellite imagery released by China, which show "three suspected floating ... (more)

While investigators are stumped over the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the lack of evidence as to what happened hasn't stopped wild - and I mean WILD - speculation as to the fate of the missing jet and its 239 passengers and crew members.

With all the uproar about the recent Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 gone missing, just about anyone should be frightened to step foot on an airplane anytime soon.

Hollywood thrillers love conspiracy theories , while academics do not. Academic Jeffrey M. Bale complains of this in: Very few notions nowadays generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies.

The internet has opened up a whole new world for stupid people and the maker of this National Corvette Museum sinkhole conspiracy video very well may be the stupidest of them all.

Andrew Bolt has been called a racist, and he's terribly, terribly sad about it. Plus other media tidbits of the day Exclusively old news, SMH .

NBC has given more airtime to John Ziegler, the conservative filmmaker behind "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected," "Palin Was Targeted" and "Blocking the Path to 9/11," to sound off on his latest conspiracy theory: that the victims of convicted serial child rapist and former assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky were manipulated ... (more)

How can you tell the difference between a real scandal and a "phony" scandal? Real scandals center on allegations, however ridiculous, made by Democrats.

The intriguing and ongoing mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370's disappearance near Vietnam has generated a cottage industry of freshly minted amateur avionics experts who confidently express their hidden genius about what happened to the plane.