Crazy
List of the “World’S Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories”
In no particular order, with each theorys author or main proponent in parentheses
The driver shot JFK. the late William Cooper
The Beatles were designed and sent to the U.S. by the British Psychological Warfare Division, to undermine the morals of American teenagers. Lyndon LaRouche
Christs Crucifixion was staged. Hugh Schonfield Christ eloped with Mary Magdalene, and one or both of them fled to France to raise their family. Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln
Christ and his disciples were a magic-mushroom cult. Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Allegro
HIV/AIDS was created in a lab.
HIV does not cause AIDS.
List: List of the “World’s Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories”
Did Chess Make Him Crazy?
Bobby Fischer is back in Iceland, and that is as it should be. Fischer put Iceland on the map for the first time since the Vikings happened by. And Iceland put Fischer on the map, providing the venue for his greatest triumph, the 1972 world chess championship. That was before he fell off a psychic cliff.
Fischer is the poster boy for the mad chess genius, a species with a pedigree going back at least to Paul Morphy, who after his triumphal 1858-59 tour of Europe returned to the U.S., abruptly quit the game and is said to have wandered the streets of New Orleans talking to himself. Others have verged more on the edge of eccentricity. The great Wilhelm Steinitz claimed to have played against God, given him an extra pawn and won. Neither player left a record of the game.
