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Evidence strength: The claim that reptilian humanoids secretly live among humans or control Earth lacks credible scientific, biological, genetic, photographic, or documentary evidence. A small minority continues to assert it, mainly within conspiracy and New Age communities.
The modern claim describes shape-shifting reptilian humanoids who impersonate people and control governments or human society. It is most closely associated with David Icke's books and public statements. Available accounts trace elements of the idea to older mythology, theosophy, and pulp fiction, including Robert E. Howard's serpent-men stories, before its modern conspiracy formulation. The mainstream evidence-based assessment is that no credible evidence demonstrates that such beings exist on Earth. Some people and communities nevertheless interpret experiences, power relations, or alleged sightings through this framework. The main disagreement is between the evidence-based conclusion that reptilians are a modern myth and claims that they are hidden, shape-shifting beings operating within human society.
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Mainstream scientific and scholarly assessment treats Earth-dwelling, shape-shifting reptilians as unsupported. The theory offers no credible biological, genetic, photographic, or documentary evidence, while its imagery and narrative can be traced through mythology, theosophy, fiction, and modern conspiracy culture.
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Believers and some communities describe reptilians as humanoid beings concealed among humans, sometimes with powers of mimicry, disappearance, or control. Anthropological analysis documents how these narratives operate in lived social worlds, while supporting sources do not provide independently verifiable proof of the beings' physical existence.
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