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Hold onto your tinfoil hats! Join us as we count down the most jaw-dropping, head-scratching, and utterly bizarre claims ever made by famous faces. From alien encounters and secret assassins to flat Earth theories and mathematical reinventions, these celebs took a vacation from reality and never quite returned. Which celebrity conspiracy theory left you the most bewildered?
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00:00My doctor is Google, my science is Twitter, and my religion is Donnie Wahlberg.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:07And today, we're counting down our picks for the silliest and most outlandish claims ever made by popular celebrities.
00:14When reached for comment, one former NASA scientist said, wow, what a load of BS this is.
00:21Number 10. Aliens. And lots of them. Dan Aykroyd.
00:26I don't think they want a formal relationship with people on Earth.
00:29They want an informal, secret relationship. I think they probably have one with black elements of the Air Force and the government.
00:36This comedian's humor extends beyond the screen and includes some truly outrageous stories about UFOs.
00:42Dan Aykroyd isn't just playing a character in Ghostbusters. He is a diehard believer in the paranormal, especially aliens.
00:50And he doesn't have the odd, oh, I saw a UFO one time story.
00:54No, he claims to have seen at least four, including one over Montreal, which was 100 feet long and 50 feet high.
01:01It was huge. It was 150 feet long, 50 feet wide.
01:06Gray. It was a gray, rainy day in Montreal.
01:09Broad daylight. And here was this thing at the 23rd story of the hotel.
01:13Surely, somebody else saw that. That's certainly not all.
01:17He also claims that the Men in Black sent him a telepathic warning about airing his new show, Out There,
01:23and that 13-quart skulls of extraterrestrial origin are scattered across the Earth.
01:28This later inspired the packaging of his liquor brand, Crystal Head Vodka.
01:33Yeah, these claims are out there.
01:35These were beautiful artifacts, and we've recreated it beautifully.
01:38But it's nice to know the true story, and I have kind of a thought on the theory either way.
01:43So there's the Phyllis Newman skull named Max.
01:45She has to put it in the closet because it talks to her.
01:47Wait, wait, hit the brakes.
01:50Number nine, the Star Whackers, Randy Quaid.
01:54So why have you said then that you feel that the same people who you believe killed David Carradine and Heath Ledger,
02:01the Star Whackers, are out to kill you as well?
02:04The star of National Lampoon's Vacation seemingly went on a permanent vacation from reality in 2010.
02:12Randy Quaid and his wife Evie fled to Vancouver seeking asylum,
02:15claiming they were being hunted by a secret cabal of assassins they called the Hollywood Star Whackers.
02:21Quaid released a series of bizarre videos claiming this group had already murdered Heath Ledger and David Carradine
02:27to steal their fortunes and were now coming for him.
02:29This is what I'm talking about when I mean by star whacking.
02:32I mean, it's not killing somebody necessarily.
02:35It's just creating a scandal or a mystery around a celebrity that discredits them.
02:43He described a vast conspiracy of lawyers and estate planners plotting to kill stars and cash in.
02:48Despite friends' concerns for his mental health,
02:51Quaid doubled down, insisting he was a refugee from a deadly plot.
02:55A surreal twist for an actor best known for emptying a chemical toilet into a sewer.
03:01Clark, please. He doesn't know any better.
03:05You ought to know it's illegal. It's a storm sewer.
03:07If it fills with gas, I pity the person who likes a match within 10 yards of it.
03:10Number 8. Vaginal Sunning and Clay Eating.
03:15Shailene Woodley.
03:16Shailene Woodley is everywhere right now.
03:18She was in Divergent, she's in The Fault in Our Stars,
03:21she's on every red carpet and in every magazine.
03:23And every time she does an interview, she opens up a little bit more about her natural healing lifestyle,
03:28like how she eats clay and makes her own medicine.
03:31Talk about diverging from standard biology.
03:34Okay, we're done with the puns.
03:36Shailene Woodley has become the queen of crunchy Hollywood advice.
03:40But two tips stood out as particularly bizarre.
03:43First, she told a beauty blog that she eats clay to bond with the negative isotopes in her body.
03:48That one was a little harder to stomach.
03:50I was definitely tasting clay for the rest of the day.
03:52If that wasn't quite earthy enough.
03:59She also recommended giving your lady parts some vitamin D by spreading your legs and getting some sunshine.
04:06Doctors quickly pointed out that clay doesn't magnetically strip isotopes
04:11and that doing that to your lower half will only result in a nasty sunburn in places you don't want one.
04:18While her intentions seemed grounded in natural wellness, the science is pure hokum.
04:23Then again, these are the types of health claims that never really concern themselves with science.
04:28One of the most memorable tips Shailene has shared is that she likes to get a little extra sun exposure.
04:33It was pretty cloudy today, so I skipped that one.
04:38Number seven, the NASA stickers, Gwyneth Paltrow.
04:43Well, now Goop has outdone themselves with body vibes, which they describe as wearable stickers that promote healing.
04:50Previously, if you wanted wearable stickers that promote healing, you had to buy a box of Band-Aids.
04:55Speaking of laughable health science, here is the queen herself.
04:59Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop brand is infamous for questionable products like the notorious jade eggs,
05:06but the body vibe stickers took the pseudoscience into orbit.
05:10Goop claimed that these stickers were made from the same conductive carbon material that NASA uses to line their spacesuits.
05:18The goal? To rebalance energy frequency.
05:21A 10-pack of body vibe stickers costs just 60 bucks.
05:27Yeah, yeah. For that price, you're going to want to pick up their anti-anxiety sticker for the panic attack you'll get
05:33when you realize you spent your rent money on stuff they give children free at the dentist.
05:37We don't know what that means either.
05:39There was just one tiny problem.
05:41NASA explicitly stated they don't use any such material in their suits.
05:46Caught in a lie of galactic proportions, Goop had to pull the claim and issue an apology.
05:50It turns out that slapping a sticker on your arm doesn't rebalance your energy frequencies,
05:56and name-dropping NASA without permission is a great way to get verified as a fraud.
06:01In our consumer alert tonight, NASA is calling out Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle website, Goop, for selling bogus healing stickers.
06:09Number six, the Flat Earth Diss Track.
06:13B.O.B.
06:13So now you get this Flat Earth concept, and with that, which was so stupid, people were answering,
06:20well, won't you fall off the Earth?
06:22If you even read what Flat Earth people are saying,
06:26they're saying there's a flat plane of existence, it is enclosed, and there is a ring around it.
06:33In 2016, rapper B.O.B. decided that centuries of astrophysics were just plain wrong.
06:39So he went on a massive Twitter rant, posting photos of the horizon, demanding to know why he couldn't see the curvature of the Earth.
06:47When famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stepped in to offer a gentle physics lesson,
06:52B.O.B. didn't just take the L and back down.
06:55Instead, he released a diss track called Flatline, rapping about Flat Earth,
07:00NASA cloning centers, and global conspiracies.
07:04Cussing out astronauts, cussing out Neil deGrasse.
07:08I'm tweeting middle finger emojis at Neil Potato Head Tyson, like I'm doing everything under the sun.
07:15So yeah, they truly put you in that place.
07:17Yes, bro, I was in my feelings about it.
07:19He even tried to crowdfund a satellite to find the edge of the world.
07:23While B.O.B. certainly isn't the only celebrity to engage with the Flat Earth conspiracy,
07:28the diss track really elevates the cringe factor here.
07:31Alas, the world keeps spinning, even if he refuses to believe it.
07:35He wants to launch satellites, weather balloons, drones, blimps.
07:40No way.
07:41Number 15, Terryology, Terrence Howard.
07:45If all motion is expressed in waves, all waves are expressed in curves.
07:51It always makes spiral.
07:53Now, we enter the mind of an actor who decided to rewrite the laws of the universe.
07:58The Oscar-nominated Terrence Howard has spent years championing his own logic system called
08:03Terryology.
08:04His central mind-bending thesis, that one times one equals two.
08:10He argues that one times one equaling one is incorrect because it implies the universe isn't growing.
08:16And we naturally keep growing and expanding out, so they have to allow that, but their
08:22math doesn't allow it because it believes in a two-dimensional space.
08:26Are you following?
08:27He has even patented his own geometric shapes to prove his point.
08:31It is a stunning display of confidence to look at 2,000 years of established mathematics and say,
08:37nope, you're all wrong.
08:38Howard insists he is a genius ahead of his time, but to the rest of the world, the math quite
08:44literally doesn't add up.
08:46In physics, there is, it's either nothing remains still.
08:50There's nothing still in the universe.
08:52There's nothing that doesn't have motion because everything is connected.
08:55So if one thing is still, everything that's connected to it has to be still.
09:00There can never be one thing still.
09:02Number four, fire can't melt steel.
09:05Rosie O'Donnell.
09:06It is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved.
09:11World Trade Center 7.
09:12World Trade Center 1 and 2 got hit by planes.
09:147, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire.
09:19There are a few holy grails of conspiracy theories.
09:23We've gone over flat earthers and now we'll discuss the 9-11 truthers.
09:28In 2007, Rosie O'Donnell turned The View into a conspiracy forum during a heated debate about
09:33the Twin Towers.
09:34She confidently declared that this was the first time in history that fire has ever melted
09:40steel, effectively arguing that the buildings were brought down by explosives rather than
09:45airplanes.
09:46Do you believe that the government had anything to do with the attack of 9-11?
09:50Do you believe in a conspiracy in terms of the attack of 9-11?
09:52No, but I do believe that it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.
09:56Scientists were quick to point out that while jet fuel might not turn steel into liquid soup,
10:01it does indeed burn hot enough to make steel lose 50% of its strength.
10:06Gravity does the rest.
10:08Her comments didn't just spark a media firestorm.
10:11They birthed the jet fuel can't melt steel beams meme that has plagued the internet ever
10:16since.
10:17I don't think it would happen, but I would, if someone could sit here right now and prove
10:20that to me, I would open my mind to that.
10:22Okay, we're going to call up Harvard and we're going to call up Yale.
10:24And we're going to ask somebody from physics to come and explain.
10:27Number three, vaccines cause autism.
10:31Jenny McCarthy.
10:32Kids just aren't dying of that sort of stuff anymore.
10:34And as a pediatrician, that's the last thing I want to see is for people to stop vaccinating
10:40because we'll start seeing kids die of polio.
10:43Here we come to what is arguably the most damaging claim ever made by a celebrity.
10:48Some of these other entries have been harmless fun.
10:52This one doing actual damage in the world.
10:54In the late 2000s, Jenny McCarthy became the face of the anti-vax movement, loudly proclaiming
11:00that vaccines caused her son's autism.
11:03You've looked at two of 36 shots and one of 35 vaccines, and you're going to stand on
11:07the stage and say that vaccines and autism are unrelated?
11:10It is the most bogus tobacco science.
11:13It's a smokescreen.
11:13Anybody who takes the time to read it would agree.
11:16She based her arguments on a thoroughly debunked and fraudulent study from Andrew Wakefield, famously
11:21telling Oprah that her son was her science.
11:25We don't know if that will hold up in the lab, but sure, whatever you say.
11:28Despite the entire medical community refuting her claims, her celebrity status gave the
11:33moment legitimate momentum.
11:34And it hasn't let up, tragically fueling vaccine hesitancy that has been linked to the
11:39resurgence of a number of preventable diseases.
11:41I mean, these vaccinations are so unnecessary, like the polio vaccine.
11:47How many people do you know with polio?
11:50Number two, adrenochroming, Jim Caviezel.
11:54QAnon conspiracy theorists have a new backer, a man who once played Jesus.
11:58Actor Jim Caviezel pushing QAnon theories that can only be described as flat out crazy.
12:03We expected more from Jesus.
12:05Unfortunately, this star of the Passion of the Christ has descended into the darkest depths
12:10of internet conspiracy theories.
12:12Jim Caviezel has become a prominent voice for the QAnon movement, specifically pushing
12:17the horrifying and baseless idea of adrenochroming.
12:20What is that, you ask?
12:22Well, Caviezel has claimed in speeches that those dang shadowy liberal elites are harvesting
12:27the blood of children to extract a chemical called adrenochrome in order to stay young.
12:32You said adrenochrome.
12:34Essentially, you have adrenaline in your body.
12:37I'll just simplify it.
12:39And when you are scared, you've produced adrenaline.
12:43He describes it with graphic, biblical intensity, even calling it the darkest recesses of hell.
12:48Yeah, it would be.
12:50But this is just a modern repackaging of an ancient and dangerous propaganda tool known as
12:55blood libel.
12:56It's truly shocking when a beloved actor starts spouting rhetoric linked to both anti-Semitism
13:02and domestic terrorism.
13:03So these crazy conspiracy theories have real consequences.
13:07Absolutely.
13:08They're so obviously just absolutely nuts, don't they?
13:13They really just are.
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13:30Number 1.
13:31Pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth.
13:35Kanye West.
13:36No one means to have all that power.
13:39It really is a shame what happened to Kanye West, now known as, yay.
13:44West once set a legitimate claim of being the best and most popular musical artist on
13:48the planet, despite some controversial claims.
13:51But now, he's gone well beyond controversial claims and is making statements that defy belief.
13:57First, he visited TMZ and suggested that 400 years of servitude was a choice.
14:02Every day we have to walk into that truth while you choose to say things that, to be honest
14:08with you, dawg, are nonsensical.
14:10But he didn't stop there.
14:12Oh no.
14:13In 2022, Ye went on a media tour where he explicitly praised Adolf Hitler and even confirmed that
14:20he was a Nazi.
14:21It was a career-imploding moment that left even seasoned conspiracy theorists speechless.
14:26These sorts of ridiculous claims aren't just outrageous.
14:29It is the ultimate celebrity low point.
14:33Won't see any tweets from Ye this morning.
14:35The rapper who changed his name from Kanye West had his Twitter account suspended again.
14:40So it happened after West posted an anti-Semitic image just hours after praising Adolf Hitler.
14:48Are there any outrageous claims that we're forgetting?
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