Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

1. The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret.

2. The power held by heads of state is second to that of small, unknown groups who really control world politics.

3. Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public.

4. The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of deliberate, concealed efforts of some organization.

5. Groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public.

6. The government permits or perpetrates acts of terrorism on its own soil, disguising its involvement.

7. A small, secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war.

8. Evidence of alien contact is being concealed from the public.

9. Technology with mind-control capacities is used on people without their knowledge.

10. New and advanced technology, which would harm the current industry, is being suppressed.

11. The government uses people as patsies to hide its involvement in criminal activity.

12. Certain significant events have been the result of the activity of a small group who secretly manipulate world events.

13. Some UFO sightings and rumors are planned or staged in order to distract the public from real alien contact.

14. Experiments involving new drugs or technologies are routinely carried out on the public without their knowledge or consent.

15. A lot of important information is deliberately concealed from the public out of self-interest.

Vaccine safety data is often fabricated.

Immunizing children is harmful and this fact is covered up.

Pharmaceutical companies cover up the dangers of vaccines.

People are deceived about vaccine efficacy.

Vaccine efficacy data is often fabricated.

People are deceived about vaccine safety.

The government is trying to cover up the link between vaccines and autism.

1. A powerful and secretive group, known as the New World Order, are planning to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign government.

2. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was produced under laboratory conditions as a biological weapon.

3. The US government had foreknowledge about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, but allowed the attack to take place so as to be able to enter the Second World War.

4. US agencies intentionally created the AIDS epidemic and administered it to Black and gay men in the 1970s.

5. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., was the result of an organised conspiracy by US government agencies such as the CIA and FBI.

6. The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio.

7. Area 51 in Nevada, US, is a secretive military base that contains hidden alien spacecraft and/or alien bodies.

8. The US government allowed the 9/11 attacks to take place so that it would have an excuse to achieve foreign (e.g., wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and domestic (e.g., attacks on civil liberties) goals that had been determined prior to the attacks.

9. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was not committed by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, but was rather a detailed, organised conspiracy to kill the President.

10. In July 1947, the US military recovered the wreckage of an alien craft from Roswell, New Mexico, and covered up the fact.

11. Princess Diana’s death was not an accident, but rather an organised assassination by members of the British royal family who disliked her.

12. The Oklahoma City bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, did not act alone, but rather received assistance from neo-Nazi groups.

13. The Coca Cola company intentionally changed to an inferior formula with the intent of driving up demand for their classic product, later reintroducing it for their financial gain.

14. Special interest groups are suppressing, or have suppressed in the past, technologies that could provide energy at reduced cost or reduced pollution output.

15. Government agencies in the UK are involved in the distribution of illegal drugs to ethnic minorities.

I think self reported is the key here.

I find it interesting that people would admit to 'believing' a conspiracy theory (which I see as a negative). I suspect they mockingly call it a conspiracy theory while internally believing it to be consistent (but I have no evidence for this). They seem like interesting people to study. Shame I can't read the text.