Conspiracy theories are a staple of popular culture. In this weekly blog, Aden McClune discusses some of the most popular ones.
Conspiracies and You
Aden McClune, Staff Reporter
Many people, whether they realize it or not, believe in some form of conspiracy theory. But why? And what is a conspiracy theory? With new entries every week, Conspiracy Corner will attempt to answer those questions.

U.S. human experimentation
Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S Department of Health purposely infected over 1,500 people in Guatemala. With permission from the U.S Surgeon General during the time, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. ,U.S doctors purposely injected inmates, children, hospital and asylum patients, soldiers and other members of the general public without their consent. The study officially ended in 1948, but other senology experi...

Bohemian Grove
Founded in 1872, the Bohemian Club, most commonly referred to as simply “Bohemian Grove” is a private club in the San Francisco area where the rich and powerful meet to do… what they do. What actually occurs in the 2,500-acre plot is highly contested, with very little actual footage, but a few interviews and tapes. Former U.S President Richard Nixon called it in the famous Nixon tapes as the ...

Chemtrails
Most everyone has seen a plane fly before, right? And most people have seen the harmless contrails of ice falling from the edge of wings, due to the humid jet exhaust when it encounters the cold atmosphere. But what if I told you that these so-called ice crystals are actually potentially dangerous chemicals, which are being flown twenty-four hours, seven days a week over your heads? You’d be ske...

Gulf of Tonkin incident
Most Americans know about the Vietnam War, but few actually know how the United States formally found itself involved. After Japanese occupation during the Second World War, France attempted to reassert her control over her colonies in Indochina. In 1954, the last remaining French fort was taken, and colonial rule was over, and the country was split in two, with the communist regime in the North, a...

The Georgia Guidestones
The Georgia Guidestones are four 16 foot tall granite slabs in Elbert County, GA. They were commissioned in 1977 by a “Richard C. Christian” (a pseudonym) who claimed that his organization has been trying to get them built for 20 years. Christian seemed to have an endless amount of money ready to go to fund the expensive project. Secrecy was very important to Christian. In fact, the banke...

The Great Reset
If you’re on Twitter, you’d have noticed the Great Reset trending recently, but what exactly is this “Great Reset”, and is it actually going to happen, and to what extent? The “Great Reset”, slammed as a “baseless conspiracy theory” by The New York Times, is actually a program developed by the World Economic Forum as a plan to “rethink” capitalism. In the wake of the COVID pandemic, ma...

The price of 5G
When you hear the term 5G you probably think of faster internet and cellular speeds. But that could not be all it’s offering. From mind control to literally ripping your DNA apart and giving you cancer, some specialists and part of the general public object to the construction of 5G towers in their home countries. According to mainline studies in Scientific American, cell phone frequencies can...

Operation Northwoods
Ah, the CIA. How benevolent. According to John Krasinski, the CIA is "something we should cherish, and thank every day.” Most know that the United States’ government has some shady dealings and history in the past, and present. I’ve written about Operation Starfish Prime, trying to ignite hydrogen bombs in the upper atmosphere, and Operation Paperclip, where Nazi scientists were brought over to work at NAS...

Flat earth
This one is ridiculous, and probably half the people that “believe” are hopefully just contrarians, or it’s satire. But yes, haven’t you heard? Space is fake and the Earth is flat. Some with PHDs in pseudo-science still live in the Dark ages. But to truly comprehend the scope of Flat Earth “Theory”, you have to see where they’re coming from. Not many people know of “Operation Paperclip”, the top-secret CIA operation ...

New World Order pt. III
Since the dawn of the first empires in Rome, to Hitler and Stalin, there have always been a select few who lusted for control over people, and the world. Why? How are these people created, how do they think, and how are they ultimately defeated, or at least stopped from world domination? To answer these questions effectively, I’m going to split up these entries about the Bilderbergs and the ...

New World Order pt. II
This is part two to the multi-part post about the New World Order. Here, I’ll try to discuss the origins and beginning of both the term “New World Order” and the formation of a secret power cult in the modern era. The most common, and accepted time period for modern plans for a one-world government is the late 18th century, 1773 to be exact. This year, Mayer Amschel Rothschild convened with 12 oth...

New world order
Since the dawn of the first empires in Rome, to Hitler and Stalin, there have always been a select few who lusted for control over people, and the world. Why? How are these people created, how do they think, and how are they ultimately defeated, or at least stopped from world domination? To answer these questions effectively, I’m going to split up these entries about the Bilderbergs and the ...

Human harvesting and DNA splicing
When one thinks of DNA splicing and cross-species scientific abominations, they think of wild science fiction stories like Jurassic Park and the more recent Gemini Man. However, some allege, with credible sources, scientific papers, and news articles claim that human-animal hybrids have been brought to term in laboratories. But why? What’s the aim? Some, including myself, believe that these aliens...

Nazis and the Occult
A simple Google search will find a reader lost in dozens of articles all claiming the same thing. Hitler and the Third Reich’s technological advancements and advantage in the Second World War can be attributed to either extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional intervention. Phew. It is widely known that both Hitler used, and regular soldiers were issued stimulants and other drugs in the latter y...

Project MK Ultra
When someone hears the term “MK Ultra”, they probably think of the classical tin-foil hat wearing, nonsensical, usually unhygienic man or woman that thinks the sun is following them around, and their dog is a CIA informant. But what is Project MK Ultra? To be blunt, it was, and perhaps still is, a government funded project that started in the early 1950s that conducted hundreds of operations, somet...

Paul is dead
This is one of my favorites, and one of the funnier ones. In 1969, rumors spread that Paul McCartney of The Beatles died in a car accident, and was replaced by a lookalike, named William Shears, hence on “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, their 1967 extravaganza release, the intro song mentions a “Billy Shears”, and then it transitions into Ringo’s song, “With A Little Help Fro...

The JFK Assassination
A lot of people have questions left unanswered about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For some people, it’s a sensitive topic, but I’m going to completely disregard that and start with a Bill Hicks joke: “Before the assassination, some people heard of anti-Castro pigeons hanging out in bars, calling; “coup, coup, coup.” Now that’s out of the way, we can talk brass tacks....

The Moon Landing
As a disclaimer, I think this one is ridiculous. However, if you believe in one conspiracy theory, a general rule of thumb is to keep an open mind. Many people, from many different generations, believe for one reason or another that the 1969 moon landing was fake. But how fake? And what does fake actually mean? In this situation, we will assume the term “fake” in relation to the moon landing is ...
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