Craziest Health Conspiracy Theories Revealed

Governments Create Artificial Diseases To Attack Enemies

The idea of artificial diseases dates back to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1981. Conspiracy theorists claimed that the CIA created a synthetic disease designed to target homosexuals, African-Americans, and other groups that displeased the government. Though that particular theory has faded, a similar one pops up with each new epidemic. Any time a new and unusually contagious disease, such as Ebola or Zika appears, people start theorizing that it was created by some government agency intent on using a synthetic disease to attack an enemy. In most cases, this is just due to a lot of public misinformation. The theories are typically disproven once scientists are able to find the actual source of the disease. Despite the fact that no major epidemics have been launched by a government, many conspiracy theorists still fear the idea of the government weaponizing an illness.

GMOS Control The Population

A general culture of public mistrust in technology and science has made GMOs the target of many conspiracy theories. Genetically modified organisms are typically just things like rice that contain extra levels of vitamin A, but conspiracy theorists claim that there is a darker, hidden agenda behind GMOs. The lighter theories about GMOs revolve around the idea of big corporations rushing GMOs to the market without proving they are safe. More fringe conspiracies suggest that companies actually know GMOs are not safe, and the companies are purposefully creating unsafe GMOs. Supposedly, these evil companies are producing genetically modified crops that do not provide enough nutrition or purposefully alter hormones to impair fertility. Conspiracy theorists suggest that the end goal of GMO companies is to reduce population growth, and they fear that the government may be behind this. In reality, the GMOs for population control theory does not hold up because most GMOs actually boost population growth as they make it easier to grow more nutritious food on smaller areas of land.