Pants on Fire. Alex Jones stated on October 3, in a Facebook post:. Alex Jones stated on October 24, in in a blog post:. Says there won't be a recount in Alabama because a Democratic judge said "we're going to erase all the computer files Alex Jones stated on August 13, in a video on his website:.
Emails show Democrats, Hillary Clinton and George Soros instigated and orchestrated racial protests in Charlottesville by trying to "control" and keep people "desperate. Alex Jones stated on April 20, in a court hearing:. Says police officers smoke marijuana once a year as part of their jobs. Twenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in But Mr Jones claimed the event had been made up by supporters of gun controls and the mainstream media.
He will now have to pay legal costs to the parents of two six-year-old boys killed in the attack. Mr Jones has long claimed on his radio show and right-wing Infowars website that the attack at Sandy Hook was "completely fake" and a "giant hoax". He has faced a slew of legal cases from several parents of the victims. In response, he has acknowledged the shooting took place but denied wronging the families. In Thursday's ruling, a Texas judge said Mr Jones had repeatedly failed to hand over legal documents and evidence to the court to support his claims about the attack.
As a result, a default judgement was issued. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble wrote that Mr Jones and other defendants had shown "flagrant bad faith and callous disregard" by not turning over the files. The ruling means he and Infowars must pay an undecided amount to the parents of Noah Pozner and Jesse Lewis, two six-year-old boys who died.
The site doesn't offer specific numbers or scientific studies but presents a story of a year-old girl, whose family claims that "she has suffered an alleged reaction to the controversial HPV vaccine.
Why this claim is ridiculous: Anecdotes are not scientific studies. And why exactly would public health officials and the medical community knowingly push a "life-ruining" vaccine? As the CDC reports , HPV vaccination can have side effects, but most are relatively mild and temporary such p ain, redness, or swelling in the injection area, fever, headache, nausea, or muscle pain.
The supplements that Jones' Infowars is selling? Bill Gates' philanthropic work is part of a mass eugenics effort. Jones has called billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Gates a " modern-day Stalin ," blasting his "continued efforts to sterilize and destroy the third world through vaccinations and his attempts to cull the world population.
Eugenics is pronounced like "you" and "genics" and is the controlled selective breeding of the human population. Why this claim is ridiculous: So Jones is attacking a billionaire who is actually encouraging and supporting real science and has been using his wealth and platform for good? Meanwhile, Jones calls nerds "one of the most dangerous groups in this country" and uses his platform to wear tin foil on his head and sell "nutriceuticals".
Many real scientists whom I know have received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct independent research. I have as well. To date, I have not yet met a real scientist who has received an Infowars grant. Where exactly is the evidence that vaccination programs are being used to sterilize people and are part of a eugenics program? If Gates were indeed trying to run a eugenics program, why would his Foundation be trying to prevent and control infectious diseases rather than letting them run amok?
Incidentally, Infowars is selling a LifeStraw that supposedly can remove bacteria and protozoa. An article on the Infowars site claims that HIV was manufactured by the government to target gay men for a eugenics experiment. Why this claim is ridiculous: This is not the movie Resident Evil. And why would the government be trying to at the same time make people gay with the drinking water and then wiping people who are gay out with a manufactured virus?
This would be like running the air conditioner and the heater at the same time. If you are going to advance conspiracy theories, please make sure they sync together.
Nevertheless, both conspiracy theories kind of sync with the Infowars claim that "there's a war on for your body," which accompanies advertisements for its supplements.
This made the 4th spot because the climate change denial has been such a big part of the national discussion over the past year. Why this claim is ridiculous: Again, when you are advancing conspiracy theories, make sure that they sync with each other. Number 4 doesn't quite mesh with number If the government has figured out a way to control the weather, why couldn't pollution and chemicals from companies also cause climate change?
Humans can either affect the weather and climate or not. Please choose. Vaccines cause autism and this has been covered up by the government, and the pharmaceutical industry.
This one ranked even higher because vaccine refusal rates have been increasing and measles outbreaks have been occurring, suggesting that people are listening to anti-vaccination bluster. Jones hosted on his show Andrew Wakefield, the U.
Jones called Wakefield "admirable", "a true trailblazer", "a hero" and a"pioneer. Infowars has also suggested that the children's show Sesame Street introduced Julia, an autistic muppet, in an attempt to normalize vaccine-caused autism, as reported by Julia Belluz writing for Vox. Oh, those agenda-driven muppets. Who knows what Oscar the Grouch is trying to sell you? The Sandy Hook shooting was staged to promote gun control.
This made number 2 because it is utter poop. As this NBC News segment shows, Jones caused quite a stir and prompted lawsuits when he claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 28 people and 2 injured was a hoax:. Why this claim is ridiculous: Yes, this is exactly what you want to hear after your child, your classmate, or your friend has been shot and killed. Someone sitting in the comfort of a studio, wearing a Rolex watch, and claiming that the blood and the tears were all part of a massive hoax.
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