As the last of the bodies have been recovered from 's sunken a expert has not ruled out foul play. The luxury boat off the Sicilian coast in the wee hours of Monday August 19, after the anchor gave way during a freak tornado, known as a waterspout, battered the vessel. 15 people were rescued after they clambered into a a lifeboat, while six people on board remained missing.
On Friday, August 24, the last victim of the tragedy was pulled from the water, believed to be the 18-year-old daughter of tech tycoon, Mike Lynch who also died in incident. Of the 22 people on board, seven people are confirmed dead. over how the yacht sunk, and so quickly at that.
Superyachts and billionaires are fertile grounds for conspiracy theories, and corners of the internet are buzzing with possible explanations as to what happened, with some claiming Lynch was assassinated. Sander van der Linden, a professor of social psychology at the University of Cambridge, who studies conspiracy theories, has weighed in on why people are running to conspiracy theories. "The brain's always trying to connect the dots," he told The Telegraph.
"It's hard for people to deal with random coincidences, however unlikely they are. "Social media allows for this kind of online sleuthing where people are finding their own stories and sharing with other people, which creates this vortex of unverified rumours. “There's a 0.
001% chance they were assassinated.” He then added however, that this theory “was not the most li.