For lizard-people believers, Argentino explained, "reptilians act as an explainer for the evil that has befallen them or the world." In most cases, QAnon believers use the existence of pedophiles and human traffickers to explain away their enemies whom they perceive as evil. Lizard-people believers claim that "reptilians feed off of our emotions" in the same way, Argentino said. In the QAnon universe, elites (a group that includes Democrats, celebrities, and business-people like George Soros) are falsely believed to consume "adrenochrome," an imaginary drug supposedly secreted by children when they're afraid. Marc-André Argentino, a PhD candidate at Concordia University researching extremism, explained in a thread on Twitter that both theories are about theodicy, or "explaining the problem of evil." In both the QAnon and lizard-people worldviews, the world is being "controlled by Evil blood drinking elites that are responsible for all the evil in the world."Īrgentino told Insider that the two conspiracy-theory frameworks share an important element: those accused of being evil require human suffering to survive. Insider sent a message to Icke via the media-request contact form on his website, but had not heard back at press time. He has denied being anti-Semitic, The Guardian reported in 2001. Icke has long been accused of anti-Semitism, as his writings on the reptilian conspiracy theory are clearly evocative of the centuries-old blood-libel conspiracy theory, which alleged that a cabal of Jews were controlling the world and drinking the blood of Christian children. The book suggests that blood-drinking reptilians of extraterrestrial origin had been controlling the world for centuries, and even originated the Illuminati - a fictitious group of world leaders that conspiracy theorists say control the world. Icke alleged that "the same interconnecting bloodlines have controlled the planet for thousands of years," as the book's Amazon description says. The lizard-people conspiracy theory was popularized by conspiracy theorist David IckeĬontemporary belief in reptilians is mostly linked to British conspiracy theorist David Icke, who first published his book "The Biggest Secret" in 1998.
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