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(#10) Jenny McCarthy
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McCarthy has been the most prominent celebrity endorser of the conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism, and that the pharmaceutical industry knows this, but pushes vaccines anyway to make money. She has pushed unscientific ideas that have garnered enormous publicity, telling Time in 2009, “I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe." She later wrote for Huffington Post in 2010, “Almost all kids get — injected toxins — very early in life, and our own government clearly acknowledges vaccines cause brain damage in certain vulnerable kids.”
For these quotes, and many more, she's been called scientifically illiterate.
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(#12) Woody Harrelson
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Woody Harrelson has been a vocal 9/11 truther, going so far as to become attached to a film that would "demand an independent investigation into the tragic events of 9/11."
The film, which was to star fellow truthers Martin Sheen and Ed Asner, collapsed due to a lack of funding.
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(#21) Spike Lee
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Lee is among a number of African American celebrities who have publicly espoused the theory that the US government created AIDS to limit the Black population in inner city areas. He's also entertained the notion that the government purposefully allowed the levees in New Orleans's Ninth Ward to breach, ensuring more African Americans would perish.
“I don't find it too far-fetched that they try to displace all the Black people out of New Orleans,” he said.
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(#25) Billy Corgan
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Smashing Pumpkins front-man Billy Corgan has never been shy about sharing his theories on chemtrails, tweeting in 2010, "Hopefully they won't chemtrail us all ... tonight before the big rock show...LOL I just love [dangerous chemicals] raining down, so fun!"
He also claimed the sky was full of "toxic ... smoke," as part of a long rant during a 2010 show in Arizona, and went onto Alex Jones's show to decry the all-powerful New World Order.
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(#11) Whoopi Goldberg
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Goldberg celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by questioning it, wondering on The View, "Why is the flag rippling? There’s no air," and asking, "Who shot the footage?" The flag didn't ripple but apparently unfolded with wrinkles in it, and the footage was shot by the astronauts themselves.
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(#5) Kylie Jenner
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Jenner has said to have been concerned about chemtrails — the white lines of chemicals and toxins supposedly being sprayed on people by aircraft. In May 2015, she tweeted a meme full of misspellings and random accusations about "75 planes" that were "spraying something" and "exterminating" children and honey bees.
Since then, she's tweeted quite a bit about what she calls "ctrails." According to Scientific American, the white lines one sees behind aircraft are nothing more than clouds formed by hot exhaust hitting cold air.
— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) May 26, 2015
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In the past, due to the limited period of information dissemination, the spread of rumors was not so widespread. However, with the rise of the Internet, the spread of conspiracy theories is accelerating. Although people can easily deny the credibility of most conspiracy theories through Internet searches, many people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories than to find ways to verify them, especially when they are recognized by some celebrities.
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