Nearly half of Americans embrace some type of medical conspiracy theory, according to a study published this year by the University of Chicago. So it's no surprise that a new crop of outlandish beliefs around the spread of the Ebola virus have started to take hold. Rush Limbaugh, for example, has

Why haven't Joni Ernst's flirtation with Agenda 21 or Tom Cotton's ideas about ISIS gotten more attention? Joni Ernst is an Iowan, born and bred, an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, and the Republican nominee for the Senate in Iowa. She has also flirted seriously with wacky conspiracy theories,

've heard some strange criminal defense theories. But when John F. Gibson claimed in Greene County Court he was innocent of fraud because of a vast conspiracy that consumed all levels of government, I took special note. I grew more intrigued when I discovered other nearby residents believed in the

Is Obama behind the Ebola outbreak? Are planes poisoning us? Is Lady Gaga part of an evil Illuminati plot? The five conspiracy theories you won't believe people believe The best conspiracy theories are like enchanting mazes of logic whose thresholds, once crossed, are hard to return from. As

Some of the craziest conspiracy theories ever: from the "faked" moon landings to Israel selling aphrodisiac bubble-gum to palestinian schoolgirls. 1 Israel makes palestinian schoolgirls sexually promiscuous by selling them aphrodisiac bubble-gum "Palestinian authorities uncovered Israeli efforts to