America Loves Its Conspiracy Theories

It's official: Americans love their conspiracy theories. Public Policy Polling asked voters to weigh in on 20 more infamous ones, and the results show that a not-insignificant number of people believe that President Obama is the anti-Christ (13%), Big Foot exists (14%), and the planet is secretly ruled by the New World Order (28%; 4% think our societies are actually ruled by "lizard people"). Among the other results:

• 21% believe the government covered up a UFO crash in Roswell; 29% believe in aliens
• 6% believe Osama bin Laden is alive; 5% think Paul McCartney has been dead for decades
• 15% think there's mind-control technology hidden in TV signals
• 37% think global warming is a hoax
• 7% think the moon landing was faked
• 15% think Big Pharma develops new diseases as a way to make money
• 14% see the CIA's hand in the 1980s crack epidemic

Click here to read the full results. (More conspiracy theories stories.)