About: James Tracy (conspiracy theorist)

James Frederick Tracy (born 1965) is an American conspiracy theorist and former professor who has espoused the view that some American mass shootings did not occur and are hoaxes. Tracy holds a PhD degree, awarded by the University of Iowa in 2002. He was previously a tenured professor of communication at Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton. He maintains that the Boston Marathon bombing was a false flag operation perpetrated by the United States government, and that the Sandy Hook massacre did not occur but was a hoax also perpetrated by the United States government. There is a "Sandy Hook truther" movement founded upon this conspiracy theory.