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Conspiracy theories
Hovind has several conspiracy theories about the U.S. government. He believes that the [[Wikipedia:Amygdalin|Laetrile]] actually works as a "cancer cure" being suppressed by the U.S. government.<ref name="CSICOP">{{cite news | url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-11/hovind.html | title=A Journey to Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure Land| publisher=Skeptical Inquirer | date= November 2004 | first=Greg| last=Martinez | accessdate = 2006-10-19}}</ref> On his radio program he has said that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks and that a "lot of folks were told not to come to work."<ref name="antisemitism">{{cite news | url=http://www.kent-hovind.com/articles/semite.htm | title=Kent Hovind: Semitic Semantics |publisher=Kent-Hovind.com | date=2006 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2006-12-14}}</ref> He also believes the Oklahoma City bombing was carried out by the government. "Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?"<ref name="Hovindconspiracy">{{cite news | url=http://www.kent-hovind.com/quotes/conspiracy.htm | title=Kent Hovind: Quacky Quotes|publisher= | date=2006 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2006-11-04}}</ref> He also alleges that "UFOs are apparitions of Satan" and that the US government possesses UFOs.<ref name="Hovindconspiracy" /> Additionally, Hovind believes that the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and various other groups are actively planning to create a one world government and that the 1993 World Trade Center attack was staged by the US Government in order to pass "anti-terrorism" legislation that restricts civil liberties. He says, "I love my country, but fear my government. And you should too."<ref> [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5240112600444883198&q=kent+hovind+new+world+order&hl=en Hovind's New World Order (Google video)]</ref>
 
Hovind has been criticized by the [[Wikipedia:Southern Poverty Law Center|Southern Poverty Law Center]] for selling books like [[Wikipedia:Des Griffin|Des Griffin]]'s ''[http://www.wingtv.net/reich.html Fourth Reich of the Rich]'' in the Dinosaur Adventure Land bookstore, and for recommending ''[[Wikipedia:The Protocols of the Elders of Zion|The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' (an established hoax that has been widely used as a justification for anti-Semitism).<ref name="radicalreligion">{{cite web|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=205|year=2001|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|title=Radical Religion: Creationism gets a dash of anti-Semitism|accessdate=2006-04-14}}</ref> Hovind responded to this criticism, "I love the Jews. But ''The Protocols of Zion'' was written to explain how to control the world, I mean, it lays it all out. But it’s really carefully done so that if it is ever discovered the Jews take the blame for it."<ref name="Kent Hovind website"> [http://www.kent-hovind.com] Australian Carl Marychurch's Kent Hovind website</ref>
 
The Center also claimed that Hovind accuses Darwinism of having produced "Communism, Socialism, Nazism, abortion, liberalism and the New Age Movement,"<ref name="radicalreligion" /> a notion that is reinforced by exhibits at Dinosaur Adventure Land that link Darwin's theory to the regimes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
 
[[As of 2007|As of August 2007]], the Dinosaur Adventure Land bookstore still sells ''Fourth Reich of the Rich'' as well as other titles like ''[[Wikipedia:The Pink Swastika|The Pink Swastika]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:World Without Cancer|World Without Cancer]]: The Story of Vitamin B17'', ''Vaccinations: Deception & Tragedy'', and ''Masonry: Beyond the Light''.
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