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The Life Sciences Institute is a rumored secret laboratory at the center of a conspiracy theory involving government use of the chemical "love drug" oxytocin for population control in the 1960s. Conspiracists claim the facility presented itself as a high-tech dating agency, servicing clients by invitation only. The laboratory was allegedly located in a decommissioned industrial building in the inner Western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.

Most theories contend that the oxytocin program was helmed by puppet masters behind the British, American and Australian governments, who controlled those countries' official leaders.

Various groups and individuals have made such conspiracy claims since the mid-1970s. The most widely known theory asserts that a Russian scientist negotiating defection to Australia in 1966, surrendered Soviet research into oxytocin to Australian intelligence. The scientist, referred to as The Professor in conspiracy circles, had allegedly continued research initiated by Nazi scientists during the Third Reich. Thousands of documents were obtained by Soviet forces during the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, including formulas that would form the blueprint of The Professor's oxytocin synthesis.

The shadowy, international group of puppet masters saw the potential of oxytocin as a weapon for controlling the masses in the face of the hippie movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. They put The Professor to work, using the Life Sciences Institute as a front for testing the drug's effect on its 'clients.'

As of June 2012, there has been no government acknowledgement of the Life Sciences Institute, nor a population control program involving oxytocin.

Alleged role in population control program
The Professor allegedly scouted his local area for potential "clients"- those likely to be convinced by the laboratory's ruse as a dating agency. The clients would submit to a DNA analysis, under the impression The Professor was measuring his/her "genetic quota," a system by which The Professor could rate the attractiveness of the client's genes. The client was shown dossiers of other clients within their "genetic budget," whom they could attract effortlessly. The Professor would arrange introductions between clients of similar budgets, usually closely observed by assistants of the so-called shadow government.

The operation was progressing steadily through the analysis phase towards the introduction of oxytocin, when a fire destroyed the Life Sciences Institute in late 1969. It is believed that all traces of the synthesised oxytocin were destroyed in the fire. Of the Institute's clients to have gone public with their story, none have reported the administering of drugs.

A building in Kensington Road, West Melbourne is believed to have been the site of the Life Sciences Institute, although the building was officially rezoned into a residential apartment building in 1969. Skeptics contend that the building had been illegally used for residential purposes since as early as 1958, thus casting doubts over the building's association with the Life Sciences Institute, and its very existence.

Donald Field
Donald Field is a conspiracy theorist and WW2 veteran who served in the Australian Special Wireless Group in Pupua New Guinea, where he helped intercept and decode enemy communications. The Australian Special Wireless Group was so covert that new recruits -- who were sworn to secrecy for 60 years -- were told their efforts must remain unknown and unacknowledged. Upon receiving his honorable discharge in 1947, Field studied to become a registered accountant. He married Patricia Steventon in 1959, and the couple had three children. During the 1960s, Donald became an active conspiracy theorist- particularly in relation to the Space Race and the disappearance of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967. Field made his theories on the Life Sciences Institute public in 2010, four decades after its supposed existence. Donald Field died in the same year, after collapsing during a media interview at the Shrine of Remembrance.

Gary Simmons
Simmons is a vocal theorist on the disappearance of Australian Prime Minister Howard Holt, who disappeared off Cheviot Beach in 1967, never to be found. Simmons claims to have towed the body of Harold Holt out to a fishing boat and then anchored the body to the sea floor, the day before the Prime Minister was reported missing on 17 December, 1967.

Simmons was discharged from the Royal Australian Navy in 1971 after medical problems rendered him unfit to serve as a diver. Simmons claims he was subject to involuntary operations at a medical facility in West Melbourne in 1969, which left him unable to write, spell or converse with clarity for almost 30 years. In 1999, Simmons undertook CT scans which clearly show the strange objects lodged in his throat. Conspiracy circles believe Simmons is living proof of their theories.