Popular conspiracy theories in Canada from covid-19 to alien contact

Although statements like the Earth is flat, intelligent beings from other planets are secretly contacting us, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn't land on the moon in 1969, etc., may seem strange, but a new survey shows that a significant number of A significant number of Canadians believe in these and other conspiracy theories.
The poll shows that about five percent of people believe the Earth is flat, while 11 percent think the moon landing is nothing more than a joke. A third of respondents also believe that evidence that extraterrestrials have been in contact with our planet has been withheld from the public.
Polling firm Leger polled 1,529 Canadian and 1,011 American adults between November 24 and 26 and asked their opinions on several popular conspiracy theories. Overall, 79 percent of Canadians and 84 percent of Americans surveyed reported believing in at least one of the conspiracy theories listed in the survey. In both countries, Conservative Party supporters were more likely to believe in conspiracies.
More than 25% of American respondents and 16% of Canadians believe that global warming does not exist. The most common conspiracy theory among Canadians and Americans is that they believe the media is manipulating the information they publish.
There is also the old theory that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a cover-up. Kennedy was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963 while riding in a convertible. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested the same day, although he claimed he was not responsible. Oswald was shot and killed two days later at a Dallas police station.
More than a third of Canadian respondents and just over half of Americans said they did not believe the official account of the former president's death.
About a third of respondents in both countries think the car crash that killed Princess Diana in Paris in August 1997 was an assassination, not an accident.
The same number of Canadians (34 per cent) believe that scientists and governments are refusing to provide a definitive cure for cancer. Thirty-two percent of Canadians and 51% of Americans believe that Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon in a laboratory.
A third of respondents (most of whom are Conservative Party supporters) believe that governments are lying about vaccines.
A quarter of Conservative Party supporters who participated in this poll think that the 2020 US elections were rigged and Donald Trump's votes were stolen.

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