Browse Conspiracy Theories

Forty-year (1932-1972) US Public Health Service study of 399 Black men with syphilis in Alabama. Researchers withheld treatment — even after penicillin became standard cure in 1947 — to observe the disease's progression. Exposed by whistleblower Peter Buxtun in 1972.

Reagan administration officials secretly sold arms to Iran (under embargo) and diverted the proceeds to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels (Congressionally banned). Exposed in 1986; led to 14 convictions.

The second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin (August 4, 1964) — used to justify escalation of the Vietnam War — never happened. Declassified NSA documents (2005) revealed the Johnson administration knew the attack was fabricated.

A CIA program (1953-1973) that conducted illegal, often horrific experiments on unwitting American and Canadian citizens using LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and torture to research mind control. Declassified in 1977.

The theory that social media platforms deliberately design their algorithms to maximize division, radicalization, and addiction for profit, with full knowledge of the psychological and social harm they cause.

The theory that governments and corporations use smartphones, smart speakers, social media, and other connected devices to conduct mass surveillance on citizens far beyond what is publicly acknowledged.