Science & Technology
Explore conspiracy theories related to science & technology.
105 theories documented
5G Health & Control Conspiracy
5G conspiracy theories claim wireless networks cause cancer, COVID-19, or mind control. Explore the origins, key claims, evidence, and debunking.
5G Caused / Spread COVID-19
The specific claim that 5G millimeter wave radiation either caused COVID-19 symptoms directly or weakened immune systems, with the timing of 5G rollouts in Wuha
Area 51
Area 51 conspiracy theories explained: alien technology, Bob Lazar's claims, reverse engineering, government secrecy, and what declassified documents reveal.
Big Tech Censorship Conspiracy
Birds Aren't Real
How a 20-year-old's joke at a 2017 protest became a nationwide movement, taught a generation about media literacy, and blurred the line between satire and sincere belief.
CERN Large Hadron Collider Conspiracy
CERN conspiracy theories claim the Large Hadron Collider opens portals to other dimensions. The Shiva statue, black holes, and Mandela Effect examined.
Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory
The belief that aircraft contrails are chemical agents sprayed for population control or weather modification. Claims, science, and evidence examined.
Cicada 3301
In 2012, an anonymous group began posting cryptographic puzzles that spanned the globe. Over a decade later, Cicada 3301's identity and purpose remain unknown.
Global Warming / Climate Change Hoax
The climate change hoax conspiracy claims global warming is fabricated by scientists and governments. Examine the claims, origins, and scientific evidence.
Dead Internet Theory
The Dead Internet Theory claimed most online content and users are fake. In 2025, with AI bots generating over half of web traffic, the theory looks less crazy every day.
Flat Earth Theory
How millions of people came to reject centuries of science and believe the Earth is flat — the history, the psychology, and the YouTube algorithm that supercharged a fringe belief into a global movement.
Free Energy Suppression
The free energy suppression conspiracy claims oil companies and governments hide working perpetual motion and zero-point energy devices. Examine the evidence.
Hollow Earth Theory
The Hollow Earth theory claims our planet contains vast interior civilizations accessible through polar openings. Explore its origins, key claims, and science.
Incel Movement and Online Radicalization
The incel movement has produced multiple mass killings. But the conspiracy goes deeper — into algorithmic radicalization, foreign amplification, and a genuine crisis of male loneliness.
2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Conspiracy
The 2025 LA fires killed 29 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Then came the conspiracy theories — from space lasers to Diddy evidence destruction.
The Mandela Effect
Berenstein or Berenstain? Did the Monopoly Man have a monocle? The Mandela Effect is either a glitch in the matrix or proof that human memory is worse than we think.
Maui Lahaina Fire Conspiracy Theories
Examining conspiracy theories surrounding the devastating 2023 Lahaina fire — from directed energy weapons to billionaire land grabs and government negligence.
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax
The claim that NASA faked the Apollo moon landings. Examining the evidence, debunking the major claims, and tracing the theory's origins and cultural impact.
NASA Conspiracy & Cover-Up
Broad claims that NASA conceals evidence of extraterrestrial life, hides the true shape of Earth, stages space missions, and suppresses discoveries that would fundamentally alter human understanding.
Peter Thiel & The Surveillance State
Examining conspiracy theories about Peter Thiel, Palantir Technologies, and the creation of a corporate-government surveillance state — from CIA funding to predictive policing.
Stargate Project — CIA Remote Viewing Program
The confirmed US government program that spent $20 million training psychics for intelligence gathering. Declassified documents, results, and legacy.
The Roswell Incident
A comprehensive examination of the 1947 Roswell incident, from the initial debris recovery and military retraction to alien body claims and Project Mogul.
Simulation Theory
Simulation theory proposes our reality is a computer simulation. Explore the origins, evidence, and arguments from Plato to Nick Bostrom and Elon Musk.
Total Surveillance State
The confirmed reality that intelligence agencies conduct mass surveillance of digital communications globally, with theorists arguing the scope goes far beyond what Snowden revealed.
TikTok Ban Conspiracy
Was banning TikTok really about Chinese spying, or was it about silencing a platform the establishment couldn't control? The conspiracy theories cut in every direction.
AI Sentience Cover-Up
Claims that major AI systems (Google's LaMDA, GPT models) have already achieved sentience and that their creators are suppressing this fact to avoid regulatory,
Ancient Advanced Technology Cover-Up
The theory that ancient civilizations possessed advanced science and technology — including electricity, flight, and precise engineering — that has been suppressed or lost, with mainstream archaeology covering up evidence.
The Berenstain Bears Spelling Debate
Millions remember 'Berenstein Bears' but it was always Berenstain. The most famous Mandela Effect example, the CERN timeline theory, and why your brain lied to you.
Big Oil's Suppression of Alternatives
The theory that major oil companies have systematically funded climate denial, purchased and shelved alternative energy patents, and corrupted regulatory and political processes to maintain fossil fuel dominance — with significant elements now confirmed by documentary evidence.
The Blue Whale Challenge
How a dubious Russian newspaper article about a suicide 'game' on VKontakte created a worldwide moral panic — and how media coverage of the hoax may have caused the very harm it warned about.
Bored Ape Yacht Club Racist Symbolism Theory
Artist Ryder Ripps claimed the Bored Ape Yacht Club was full of hidden Nazi symbolism. He was sued for $9 million. Here's what actually happened.
California Wildfires and Directed Energy Weapons
The debunked theory that California wildfires were started by directed energy weapons from space. Blue objects, laser burn patterns, and what fire science says.
CERN's Satanic Rituals & Shiva Statue
Claims that a 2016 viral video of a mock human sacrifice filmed at CERN's campus and the Shiva Nataraja statue prove the organization is engaged in occult or satanic activity.
Climategate Email Scandal
The 2009 leak of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, claimed by deniers as proof of scientific fraud — multiple independent investigations cleared the scientists.
Mandatory Digital ID as Control Grid
The theory that proposals for digital national IDs are the first phase of a biometric control grid that will link identity to behavior, vaccine status, and financial access — making dissent impossible.
DEW Directed Energy Weapons Causing Wildfires
The theory — surging after the 2018 Camp Fire and 2023 Maui fire — that directed energy weapons (lasers, microwave beams) mounted on aircraft or satellites were used to deliberately ignite wildfires in targeted communities.
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity — WiFi & Cell Tower Illness
The theory that WiFi, cell towers, and electromagnetic fields cause illness in sensitive individuals. Scientific evidence, WHO position, and cultural impact.
EMF Radiation & Health Suppression
Claims that non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation from WiFi, cell towers, smart meters, and 5G networks causes cancer, neurological damage, and immune dysfunction — and that the telecommunications industry has suppressed the evidence.
Energy Crisis Suppression Conspiracy
Examining claims that revolutionary energy technologies have been suppressed by oil companies and governments, and that energy crises are artificially manufactured.
Fogvid-24 Chemical Fog Conspiracy
In late 2024, social media users claimed mysterious fog was a chemical weapon dubbed 'Fogvid-24.' Meteorologists had a simpler explanation.
The Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia
Millions remember a cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo. It was never there. Why this might be the strongest Mandela Effect example ever documented.
Secret Geoengineering & Solar Radiation Management
The theory that governments are secretly conducting large-scale geoengineering operations -- including cloud seeding, stratospheric aerosol injection, and solar radiation management -- without public knowledge or consent.
Government Mind-Altering Drug Programs
From MKUltra's LSD experiments to allegations of mass psychotropic medication as social control, examining government involvement in mind-altering substance programs.
HAARP Weather & Mind Control
The HAARP conspiracy theory claims a US research facility controls weather, causes earthquakes, and enables mind control. Evidence and debunking examined.
HAARP as Earthquake Weapon
The theory that HAARP can trigger earthquakes as a tectonic weapon. Scientific evidence, energy analysis, and the physics of why it is impossible.
Internet Privacy Conspiracy
Tech giants collect, monetize, and share your data on a scale that makes the NSA jealous. The conspiracy isn't secret — it's in the terms of service you clicked 'agree' on.
IPCC Scientific Corruption
Allegations that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change manipulates data, suppresses dissenting research, and operates as a political body rather than a scientific one -- fueled by the Climategate email leak.
Stanley Kubrick Filmed the Moon Landing
The theory that director Stanley Kubrick, fresh from filming 2001: A Space Odyssey, was secretly hired by NASA to stage the Apollo 11 footage, supposedly leaving coded confessions in his later films.
Luke, I Am Your Father — The Misquote
Darth Vader never said 'Luke, I am your father.' The actual line is 'No, I am your father.' How a cultural misquote became a Mandela Effect and why even James Earl Jones got it wrong.
Mars Face & Anomalies Cover-Up
In 1976, NASA's Viking orbiter photographed a mesa on Mars that looked like a face. Richard Hoagland built an empire claiming it was proof of an ancient civilization. Higher-resolution images proved it was a hill. Hoagland kept going.
We Live in the Matrix
The Matrix didn't just change cinema — it gave conspiracy theorists a universal metaphor. 'Red pill' culture, simulation theory, and the conviction that reality is a manufactured illusion all flow from a 1999 film about kung fu and trench coats.
The Max Headroom Incident
On November 22, 1987, someone in a Max Headroom mask hijacked two Chicago TV stations. The bizarre 90-second pirate broadcast has never been explained and the culprit never caught.
Microchip Implant and Tracking Conspiracy
No, vaccines don't contain microchips. But RFID implants are real, companies do chip employees, and governments are building digital ID systems. The truth is weirder than the conspiracy.
The Momo Challenge
How a Japanese art sculpture became the face of a global moral panic — and why the Momo Challenge was almost entirely fabricated by the media that covered it.
The Monopoly Man's Missing Monocle
Rich Uncle Pennybags has never worn a monocle. Millions think he does. The Monopoly Man Mandela Effect, Mr. Peanut confusion, and the science of false visual memory.
The Montauk Project
The debunked claim that secret US government experiments in time travel, mind control, and portals took place at Montauk Air Force Station in the 1970s-80s.
New Jersey Drone Sightings (2024)
In late 2024, thousands reported mysterious drones over New Jersey. Conspiracy theories ranged from Iranian spies to fake alien invasions. Here's what we know.
The Philadelphia Experiment
The debunked claim that the US Navy made the USS Eldridge invisible and teleported it in 1943. Origins, Carlos Allende's letters, and the facts.
Planet X / Nibiru Collision
The prediction of a rogue planet called Nibiru or Planet X on a collision course with Earth, allegedly known to governments and suppressed to prevent panic.
Planned Obsolescence Conspiracy
The documented practice of manufacturers designing products to fail on schedule, from the Phoebus Cartel's lightbulb scheme to modern smartphone slowdowns.
Hidden Portals & Dimensional Gateways
The belief that governments and military programs have achieved controlled access to other dimensions or parallel universes through advanced physics experiments kept secret from the public.
Great Pyramid as Power Plant
The theory that the Great Pyramid of Giza was not a tomb but a functioning energy generation and transmission device, possibly linked to Nikola Tesla's wireless power concepts.
Red Mercury — Cold War Superweapon
The persistent myth of 'red mercury,' a mysterious substance allegedly developed by the Soviet Union, variously described as a nuclear bomb catalyst, stealth paint, or antimatter weapon component.
RFID Microchip Implant Surveillance
The conspiracy theory that governments will mandate implantable RFID microchips for tracking and control. From VeriChip to COVID vaccine myths, the evidence examined.
Shazaam: The Sinbad Genie Movie That Never Existed
Thousands remember Sinbad starring in a '90s genie movie called Shazaam. It never existed. How a false memory became one of the Mandela Effect's most baffling cases.
Slender Man: From Creepypasta to Conspiracy
The story of how a Photoshop contest entry on Something Awful became a global phenomenon, inspired a real stabbing, and spawned conspiracy theories about internet mind control.
China's Social Credit System & Global Expansion
China's social credit system is real but widely misunderstood. Claims it will be adopted globally via digital IDs, CBDCs, and ESG scores examined against the evidence.
Tesla's Suppressed Wardenclyffe Tower
The claim that Nikola Tesla invented a working wireless free energy transmission system at Wardenclyffe Tower that was deliberately sabotaged by J.P. Morgan and the electric utility industry to protect their profits.
Government Time Travel Programs
Claims by 'chrononaut' Andrew Basiago and others that the US government has operated secret time travel and teleportation programs since the 1960s, allegedly including a young Barack Obama as a participant.
Water-Powered Car Cover-Up
Did Stanley Meyer invent a car that runs on water? Was he murdered by the oil industry? The claims, the science, the court cases, and the conspiracy theory examined.
We Are the Champions — The Missing 'Of the World'
Queen's 'We Are the Champions' doesn't end with 'of the world' in the studio version. But live versions do. The Mandela Effect case with a legitimate partial explanation.
Weather Manipulation Conspiracy
Weather Warfare & Directed Storm Attacks
Theories that hurricanes, droughts, and floods are secretly weaponized. From Operation Popeye to HAARP, examining real weather warfare and conspiracy claims.
Y2K Catastrophe — Was It Real or Manufactured Fear?
When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2000, planes didn't fall from the sky. Was Y2K a genuine crisis averted by heroic programming, or a manufactured panic that funneled billions to the tech industry? The answer is frustratingly both.
Young Earth Creationism as Science
Young Earth Creationism claims the Earth is 6,000-10,000 years old, that dinosaurs coexisted with humans, and that mainstream science is a coordinated atheist conspiracy. It has a museum with an animatronic T-Rex wearing a saddle.
Abiotic Oil Conspiracy
The theory that oil is continuously generated deep within Earth — not from ancient organisms — and that peak oil is a fraud. The Russian origins, the science, and why it's wrong.
Admiral Byrd's Secret Antarctic Discovery
Claims that Admiral Byrd's Operation Highjump (1946–47) secretly discovered a hollow Earth entrance or hidden Nazi base in Antarctica, based on a forged 'secret
Agartha & the Inner Earth Kingdom
The mythological underground civilization at the Earth's core, allegedly accessible through polar openings or hidden cave systems, associated with advanced bein
Antarctic Treaty Cover-Up
Theories that the 1959 Antarctic Treaty hides a secret — whether a hidden continent, alien presence, Nazi base, or flat-Earth ice wall — beneath an exclusion zo
Carbon Tax as Global Wealth Transfer
The theory that carbon pricing and emissions trading schemes are not environmental policies but mechanisms to transfer wealth from developed to developing nations and consolidate global financial control.
Chemtrail Heavy Metal Contamination
The specific claim that chemtrails deposit barium, strontium, and aluminum nanoparticles into the environment and human bodies, and why soil and water testing does not support it.
Climate Scientists Paid for Alarmism
The allegation that climate researchers systematically exaggerate findings to secure grant funding and career advancement, with institutions rewarding alarmism over accuracy.
Cold Fusion Cover-Up
Did the scientific establishment deliberately kill cold fusion after Pons and Fleischmann's 1989 announcement? The claims, the science, and the ongoing controversy.
Concave (Cellular) Earth Theory
The fringe belief that humanity lives on the interior surface of a hollow sphere, with the Sun, Moon, stars and the rest of the universe contained within it.
Earthquake Machines & Tectonic Weapons
Claims that governments possess earthquake-triggering technology based on Tesla's resonance theories. The history, the science, and why it doesn't work.
Electric Universe Theory
The Electric Universe theory claims electromagnetic forces, not gravity, shape the cosmos — and that mainstream physics is a suppressed deception. Origins, claims, and debunking.
Expanding Earth Theory
The Expanding Earth theory claims our planet has grown significantly over geologic time. Once a serious hypothesis, now debunked by satellite geodesy and plate tectonics.
Evolution as Conspiracy Against God
The creationist narrative that evolutionary biology is a pseudo-scientific conspiracy promoted to undermine religious faith and moral order, with Darwin's theory alleged to be fundamentally fraudulent.
Modern Geocentrism
A small but vocal movement insists Earth sits at the center of the universe, rejecting 500 years of astronomy. Led by Catholic traditionalists and fringe physicists, modern geocentrism has produced books, films, and a surprising amount of internal debate.
Hollow Moon Theory
The theory that the Moon is an artificial hollow sphere, possibly a giant spacecraft or observation post, evidenced by anomalous 'ringing' seismic data from Apollo seismometers.
Loch Ness Monster as Cover for Military Submarine Testing
The theory that Loch Ness Monster sightings were encouraged or fabricated by the British military to conceal secret submarine and sonar testing in the loch.
Luna 25 Crash — Space Race Sabotage Theory
The theory that Russia's Luna 25 spacecraft, which crashed into the Moon in August 2023, was sabotaged by Western powers to prevent Russian lunar achievements.
Secret Moon Bases
Do NASA, the U.S. military, or other governments have secret bases on the Moon? Examining the claims of lunar structures, alleged whistleblowers, and what decades of lunar imaging actually show.
Orgone Energy Suppression
Wilhelm Reich claimed to discover a universal life energy called orgone that could cure cancer and control weather. The FDA destroyed his work and jailed him. Was it suppression or pseudoscience?
Peak Oil as Manufactured Scarcity
Was 'peak oil' a deliberately promoted scare to keep oil prices high? The Hubbert curve, the oil industry's motives, and the debate over manufactured scarcity.
Plasma Cosmology & Big Bang Denial
An alternative cosmological model claiming the universe is infinite and eternal, dominated by electromagnetic plasma physics rather than gravity, with proponents alleging suppression by mainstream cosmology.
Chemtrails as Population Control
The specific variant of chemtrail theory claiming the aerosols contain sterilization agents, slow-acting toxins, or mind-suppressing chemicals as part of a deliberate depopulation program.
Project Rainbow (Invisibility Research)
The alleged classified US Navy research program into electromagnetic cloaking and ship invisibility that supposedly gave rise to the Philadelphia Experiment, based on Einstein's unified field theory.
Scalar Wave Weapons
The scalar weapons conspiracy theory claims Tesla-derived scalar electromagnetic waves have been weaponized for weather control, mind control, and remote destruction. Here's why physics says otherwise.
Smart Meter Surveillance & Health Conspiracy
Conspiracy theories claim smart utility meters are surveillance devices tracking household behavior while emitting harmful radiation. The evidence examined.
Solar Cycles Explain All Climate Change
The debunked claim that solar cycles, not CO2 emissions, drive all climate change. Explore the science, the cosmic ray hypothesis, and why satellite data disprove this theory.
Tesla's Death Ray & Teleforce Weapon
Claims that Tesla invented a particle beam 'death ray' in the 1930s, and that after his death in 1943 the FBI seized all his papers — with the technology either lost, suppressed, or reverse-engineered into modern weapons.
The Toynbee Tiles
Since the 1980s, cryptic tiles reading 'TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER' have appeared embedded in asphalt across dozens of cities. Who made them — and why?
Van Allen Belt Radiation & Moon Travel
The claim that lethal radiation in the Van Allen belts would have killed Apollo astronauts, making moon landings impossible — debunked by physics, dosimetry, and the astronauts' own health records.
Ancient Indian Vimana Flying Machines
Were ancient Indians flying aircraft thousands of years ago? The Vaimanika Shastra, ancient astronaut claims, and Hindu nationalist pseudohistory — examining the vimana theory.