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12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country
About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there's a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want.
Public Policy Polling has raised weird polls to an art form. During last year's presidential campaign, the firm earned a bit of a reputation for its unorthodox questions; for example, "If God exists, do you approve of its handling of natural disasters?"
Today PPP released the results of a national survey looking at common conspiracy theories. Broken down by topic and cross-referenced by political preference, the results will not inspire a lot of patriotism. If you need to defend your fellow countrymen, be sure to note that the margin of error is 2.8 percent.
We took the findings and arranged them from most- to least-believed. And, just to inspire additional shame, figured out how many actual Americans [...] must believe in things like the danger of fluoride in water. (28 million, if you're wondering.)
View the full question asked for each conspiracy.
ConspiracyPercent believingNumber of Americans believing:
JFK was killed by conspiracy......................51 percent.........160,096,160
Bush intentionally misled on Iraq WMDs......44 percent.........138,122,178
Global warming is a hoax...........................37 percent.........116,148,195
Aliens exist............................................. ..29 percent..........91,035,072
New World Order.......................................28 percent..........87,895,931
Hussein was involved in 9/11.....................28 percent..........87,895,931
A UFO crashed at Roswell...........................21 percent..........65,921,948
Vaccines are linked to autism.....................20 percent..........62,782,808
The government controls minds with TV......15 percent..........47,087,106
Medical industry invents diseases..............15 percent..........47,087,106
CIA developed crack.................................14 percent..........43,947,966
Bigfoot exists...........................................14 percent..........43,947,966
Obama is the Antichrist.............................13 percent..........40,808,825
The government allowed 9/11...................11 percent..........34,530,544
Fluoride is dangerous.................................9 percent..........28,252,264
The moon landing was faked.......................7 percent..........21,973,983
Bin Laden is alive.......................................6 percent..........18,834,842
Airplane contrails are sinister chemicals......5 percent..........15,695,702
McCartney died in 1966..............................5 percent..........15,695,702
Lizard people control politics......................4 percent..........12,556,562
Just to further inspire conversation, PPP broke down belief in each theory by whom the respondent supported in the 2012 election. This yielded some genuinely interesting results.
[see graph at linked article]
For example, only three conspiracies were more commonly believed by Obama supporters: that Bush intentionally misled America about Iraq's WMDs (a massive 69 percent of his supporters believe that one), that the CIA launched the crack epidemic, and that the moon landing was faked.
There are two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: that aliens exist and the one about fluoridation.
Everything else, from lizard people to vaccines and autism to global warming being a hoax? Believed by more Romney supporters.
No conspiracy was less commonly believed than one suggesting that the government is populated by lizard people. But that's mostly because only 2 percent of Obama supporters believe the theory while 5 percent of Romney supporters do.
Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at pbump@theatlantic.com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire.
Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...country/63799/
12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country
About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there's a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want.
Public Policy Polling has raised weird polls to an art form. During last year's presidential campaign, the firm earned a bit of a reputation for its unorthodox questions; for example, "If God exists, do you approve of its handling of natural disasters?"
Today PPP released the results of a national survey looking at common conspiracy theories. Broken down by topic and cross-referenced by political preference, the results will not inspire a lot of patriotism. If you need to defend your fellow countrymen, be sure to note that the margin of error is 2.8 percent.
We took the findings and arranged them from most- to least-believed. And, just to inspire additional shame, figured out how many actual Americans [...] must believe in things like the danger of fluoride in water. (28 million, if you're wondering.)
View the full question asked for each conspiracy.
ConspiracyPercent believingNumber of Americans believing:
JFK was killed by conspiracy......................51 percent.........160,096,160
Bush intentionally misled on Iraq WMDs......44 percent.........138,122,178
Global warming is a hoax...........................37 percent.........116,148,195
Aliens exist............................................. ..29 percent..........91,035,072
New World Order.......................................28 percent..........87,895,931
Hussein was involved in 9/11.....................28 percent..........87,895,931
A UFO crashed at Roswell...........................21 percent..........65,921,948
Vaccines are linked to autism.....................20 percent..........62,782,808
The government controls minds with TV......15 percent..........47,087,106
Medical industry invents diseases..............15 percent..........47,087,106
CIA developed crack.................................14 percent..........43,947,966
Bigfoot exists...........................................14 percent..........43,947,966
Obama is the Antichrist.............................13 percent..........40,808,825
The government allowed 9/11...................11 percent..........34,530,544
Fluoride is dangerous.................................9 percent..........28,252,264
The moon landing was faked.......................7 percent..........21,973,983
Bin Laden is alive.......................................6 percent..........18,834,842
Airplane contrails are sinister chemicals......5 percent..........15,695,702
McCartney died in 1966..............................5 percent..........15,695,702
Lizard people control politics......................4 percent..........12,556,562
Just to further inspire conversation, PPP broke down belief in each theory by whom the respondent supported in the 2012 election. This yielded some genuinely interesting results.
[see graph at linked article]
For example, only three conspiracies were more commonly believed by Obama supporters: that Bush intentionally misled America about Iraq's WMDs (a massive 69 percent of his supporters believe that one), that the CIA launched the crack epidemic, and that the moon landing was faked.
There are two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: that aliens exist and the one about fluoridation.
Everything else, from lizard people to vaccines and autism to global warming being a hoax? Believed by more Romney supporters.
No conspiracy was less commonly believed than one suggesting that the government is populated by lizard people. But that's mostly because only 2 percent of Obama supporters believe the theory while 5 percent of Romney supporters do.
Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at pbump@theatlantic.com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire.
Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...country/63799/