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* Morrissey's constant denial of being gay, despite many Smiths lyrics (written by him) being about homosexual experiences of his.
* In the series of interviews that made up 2003's ''Living with [[Michael Jackson]]'', Jackson claimed he had only had two plastic surgeries in his entire life, and that the reason his face had changed so dramatically to the point of [[Body Horror]] was due to the natural maturation process. (His claim that one reason he had had a nose job was to better "hit the high notes" was referenced in an ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode about Shake becoming obsessed with plastic surgery not long afterwards.)
* The late [[Mickey Rooney]]
* Anorexic people will insist that they're fat even when they're as skinny as a weed. The tragedy of it being that due to their perspective being extremely distorted by the condition, it isn't a lie from their point of view. In some cases, though, many are aware of their condition but are told by their subconscious to keep fasting. Also, for some, fasting is not due to a wish to lose weight in particular but a demonstration of power and self-restraint.
* The Chinese government denies that the Tianamen Square massacre ever happened. Even with millions of videos and pictures of it circulating the web even today. Of course, people behind the "great firewall of China" don't get to see those videos and pictures...
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* During the 2011 Libyan uprising, a government official went on television to say that there was no uprising taking place in the country. Said [[Sarcasm Mode|non-existent]] uprising had been going on for six months by the time he got on TV, NATO is enforcing a no-fly zone, and numerous worldwide news stations are covering it.
* In Italy a driver was caught driving in the wrong direction for 30 km on an highway. The driver denied it.
* In one routine, comedian [[Chris Rock]] claims that this is the ''proper response'' when a man is caught cheating by his wife. Deny everything, no matter how much evidence she has...even if she catches you
* Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, known in the West as "Comical Ali" or "Baghdad Bob", infamously (and hilariously) continued to claim that the Iraqi army was crushing the [[The War on Terror|American invasion forces]], even denying that American troops had reached Baghdad as ''American tanks were visible behind him''.
* Sometimes a topic can be politicized to such a degree that denial of something is taken as an article of faith, despite extremely well-documented proof of otherwise. While there are many examples in this list that are fairly uncontroversially true where people have the freedom to say them and not be arrested for it, there are some issues that in some parts of the world are pure [[Flame Bait]], documentation notwithstanding. For example, [[Global Warming]] denial is extremely common in [[The United States]], and [[World War II|Holocaust]] denial is extremely common in [[Useful Notes/Arab-Israeli Conflict|the Arab world]]. In these particular social circles, for reasons of ideology rather than documentation, these topics have developed extremely inflamed passions such that [[Implausible Deniability]] is considered a fundamental litmus test for social acceptability and inclusion. Ironically, even the [[Global Warming]] article here at
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