Do lizard people run the government?
According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, 4 percent of Americans believe “shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power” — and that was just one of the weird conspiracy theories that some people subscribe to. Fifteen percent believe drug companies and the medical industry invent new diseases to make money, and 20 percent believe vaccines cause autism. Nine percent think the government adds fluoride to water for “sinister reasons,” and 21 percent are sure a UFO landed in Roswell, N.M. Quite a few people, 37 percent, think global warming is a hoax. And in case you are taking comfort in the scant 4 percent who were buying into the lizard people — 7 percent said they weren’t sure.
