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Mad Science and Forbidden Knowledge
The following conspiracy theories all share in common their relativeness to science and technology. Some of these theories address environmental catastrophes, the past interpretations of inner core of the earth, and underground bases.

United Nations
According to NASA, the cause of global warming is most likely (about 95% probability) due to human activity, and continues to reach high temperatures, ever since the mid-20th century. The affirmation that the human population is to blame for in the case of global warming raises concerns about the reduction of the human population. This theory revolves around the Irvin Baxter's idea that the United Nations uses the global warming phenomenon as a hoax, "signifying the manifestation of end time events...designed to enslave the world under the mandate of one world government." This theory claims that global warming is a false catastrophe that is being spread by the UN to gain more control of the human population.

HAARP
During the 1990s, the government program, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) created an antenna ray in Gakona,Alaska, for ionospheric research which was paid for by The Air Force. David Walker, the deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for technology, science and engineering, claims that HAARP considered the possibility of adding, "energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it," and that it had been accomplished. Theories blaming HAARP for global warming emerged as a result,"The United States' experiments with Global weather patterns has impacted everyone else on the planet." This specific theory claims that Bill Clinton and the Vice President, Al Gore, provided government funding for the creation of HAARP, therefore they are directly responsible for the global warming phenomenon.

The Georgia Guidestones
The Georgia Guidestones, also known as the "American Stonehedge" contains 10 guides, or commandments, engraved in stone in 8 different languages. It is known as a symbol for conspiracy theorists, due to the messages that pertain to eugenics, population control, and ecological policy. The messages include statements such as, "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature; Guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity." In the 1980s and 1990s, conspiracy theorists analyzed the message about maintaining the population under 500,000,000, and determined that the human population would have to be reduced to that amount. In other words, theorists view the messages on the stones as an agenda to be accomplished.

The Hollow Earth
Conspiracy Theories regarding the inner core of the Earth have started since the year 1818, when an American who served as an infantry captain in the War of 1812, John Cleves Symmes, claimed that core of the Earth was "habitable and hollow within." Symmes also claimed that the people of the outside world were descendants of the delinquents that have committed crimes and had been exiled from the subterranean realm. Due to the lack of scientific knowledge of the Earth's inner core at the time, people believed him, as he spread these ideas in the form of lecture to significant crowds.

Underground Bases
The alleged underground Air Force base located near Dulce, New Mexico, is an area known to have suspicious activity. In the 1970s, unusual sightings of strange lights have been reported, as well as organs that have been removed from cows that appear to have been incised by lasers. This alludes to the popular conspiracy theory that the underground bases are created and operated by humans working along with aliens.

Global Warming
In 2014, the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a "Synthesis Report" which claimed that human influence played a major role in global warming. A skeptic may view the report as a means for the government to increase their involvement in the lives of human beings.

The Georgia Guidestones
Stanley Monteith, a radio host, believes the conspiracy theory that the Georgia Guidestones serve as message to control the human population is "difficult to accept." In his essay, "The Population Control Agenda" he affirms that the idea that the conspiracy to "kill off large segments of the world's population" is unimaginable and terrifying.

Hollow Earth
In the twentieth and twenty-first century, the "credentialed scientific establishment" negatively affected Symmes' theory that the Earth has a hollow interior. As a result, Symmes' theory was restricted to the fictional realm, instead of being a possible theory.

Underground Bases
Richard Sander's 1995 book "Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide?" emphasizes that the livestock and cattle that appeared to be mutilated by "lasers" during the 1980s, were not caused by aliens. Sauder claims that there is not enough evidence to conclude that the aliens were responsible for the mutilations. He suggests that the incisions made on these animals were "earthly".

In Popular Culture

 * HAARP has been featured in X-Men Legends game
 * HAARP has made an appearance in The X-Files
 * The Georgia Guidestones appeared on the History Channel on an episode called Apocalypse in Georgia
 * Dulce Base was featured on the History Channel program on an episode called Underground Alien Bases

Global Warming
In 2014, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations came out with a Concise Report on the World Population Situation which consisted of information on the planet's population, which was 7.2 billion. Due to this projecting population trend, the report claimed that there would be "opportunities and challenges for the formulation and implementation of the United Nations post-2015 development agenda and for the achievement of all internationally agree development goals" This lead to the speculation that the UN desired to reduce the human population.

Irvin Baxter was the founder and president of Endtime Ministries, born on October 8, 1945. He is a radio-talk show host, author, publisher, and international prophecy teacher. He initiated the conspiracy theory that global warming is a hoax.

The Georgia Guidestones
The development of the Georgia Guidestones theory began in 1979, when a man, referred to as R.C. Christian, walked into Elberton Granite Finishing Company of Elberton, Georgia and claimed his desire to leave a statement for the future generations to come. He claimed to have represented a small group of American who followed the Christian religion, and wished to be left anonymous. The development of the engravings of the ten maxims was then initiated, as a result.

Hollow Earth
John Cleves Symmes published a circular called Pioneer Biography: Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Early Settlers of Butler County, Ohio in 1818, which detailed his beliefs that the Earth is "hollow and habitable." Two years later, he wrote another fiction-based circular, Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery which was centered around the idea that the Earth's inner core is comparable to paradise. These stories, along with his daily even lectures, set forth the idea that the Earth's interior is hollow.

Underground Bases
During the 1950s, the Corp of Engineers began investigating the cost of creating underground bases, after World War II. The benefits of installing this base meant increased protection, elimination of the expensive costs of reparation in the case of an attack, and altered chances of continued production. The Dulce Base theory begins with Paul Bennewitz, a witness that claims to have seen flying pieces of alien air craft around the Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Bennewitz speculated that the base was being used as a place for keeping people that have been abducted by aliens In 1967, a project called Project Gasbuggy created a subterranean nuclear explosion around this area, claiming that it was used to extract natural gas. This is believed to be a cover up by the government, in an attempt to "try and wipe out the alien base and the extraterrestrials said to live deep within in."