[ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SEE HERE. The Atlantic assigned this writer to make sure: Kaitlyn Tiffany is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It.]

A Never-Ending Conspiracy Theory in Remote Alaska

Why are some people convinced that nefarious experiments are happening at HAARP?

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Mar 10 2026

(Tiffany tries to make this article on HAARP the most boring article EVER. Following are excerpts that might be more interesting than the Atlantic would prefer…)

"HAARP will soon be renamed the Subauroral Geophysical Observatory, or SAGO, matching the name of its NSF grant. “There is a side benefit that it helps us transition off of the name that drives conspiracy,” Matthews added."

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"If HAARP were located just outside of Cleveland, maybe nobody would care about it."

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"When extreme weather causes mass destruction or death, he said, “it’s natural to ask, you know, Why?” If someone thinks the wrong people are controlling the weather and using their power to inflict misery, that may make them feel helpless and frustrated, he thought. But in a strange way, it may also make them feel less helpless and frustrated than if they imagined that there was no reason for anything."

(The following excerpt is probably the point and appears near the end of the article.Of course it includes "Trump" and "climate change".)

"People who hear about HAARP today do so in an information environment that is extremely hospitable to paranoia. Climate change is causing an increase in extreme weather events, which provoke conspiracy theories consistently; certain pockets of the internet not only believe that the government controls the weather but now insist that it has replaced the sun with an LED lamp. The Trump administration stokes paranoia all the time, in innumerable ways. Over the summer, the president’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, promised answers to “good faith” questions about the condensation trails behind planes. Currently, Republican lawmakers are calling for the passage of laws that would ban weather modification, placing all kinds of ordinary scientific experimentation under that scary-sounding heading."

https://archive.is/UvrUo#selection-1161.0-1177.129

[Excerpt from very impressive fresh poll on medical freedom from the Brownstone Institute.]

Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows

Polled were 1,000 registered voters with 93.6% definitely or very likely to vote. The party breakdown is 37% Republican, 36% Democrat, 27% Independent. Party breakdown shows broad support. The margin of error for overall results is +/- 3.2 percentage points.

Such supermajorities are rare in polling outcomes. Polling documents embedded below.

Strongest areas of agreement (broad majority support):

Right to refuse medical treatment generally: 87.9% agree (58.8% strongly).

Right to make one’s own medical choices as a basic human right protected by law: 87.2% agree (59.5% strongly).

Doctors should discuss vaccine concerns openly without fear of medical board backlash: 88.1% agree (64.5% strongly — one of the highest “strongly agree” levels in the survey).

Health insurance should cover chosen treatments, including holistic/alternative options: 76.1% agree (43.6% strongly).

Right to refuse vaccines for adults: 80.4% agree (50.5% strongly).

Personal medical/vaccine decisions should never lead to employment denial: 70.6% agree (47.3% strongly).

Parents’ right to refuse vaccines for children/dependents: 65.7% agree — still a clear majority, but softer than adult refusal (37.4% strongly agree vs. 50.5% for adults).

On matters of school vaccine mandates, results show majorities:

Parents should be able to opt children out of school vaccine mandates: 54.5% agree (31.0% strongly). Among parents with children under 17, the agreement was 66.7%, with 42.8% strongly agreeing. To put this staggering result in context, other polls in recent years have concluded that more than 70% of the public support school vaccine mandates.

College students should not have been expelled for refusing Covid-19 vaccine: 65.4% agree (44.4% strongly).

On matters related to the Covid-19 Era, the poll documents a strong majority opposed measures in retrospect:

Covid lockdowns/restrictions caused excessive damage to American society: 61.9% agree (35.0% strongly) vs. 32.0% disagree.

On other matters related to medical freedom:

Childhood vaccine schedule expansion likely contributed to rise in chronic diseases (among other factors): 48.3% agree vs. 38.2% disagree + 13.6% undecided — essentially split but less than a decade ago, a strong majority said the vaccine schedule is safe as noted in a Pew Research poll.

HHS decision to conduct additional vaccine safety research is justified: 68.6% agree vs. ~21% disagree + 10% undecided.

Investigating the effects of thimerosal (a mercury-based compound), aluminum, Polysorbate-80, Polyethylene Glycol, and formaldehyde used in everyday medical products; 77.8% support, 47.8% strongly. (This question concerns the ingredients in vaccines without mentioning the word vaccines yielding even stronger support.)

Overall, the poll shows very strong support (80–88%) for adult medical autonomy, the right to refuse treatment/vaccines as adults, freedom of medical speech for doctors, and protection from employment discrimination based on medical choices.

Majority support remains when the question involves children (school mandates 54–66%, parental refusal for dependents 66%). More noteworthy, however, these results illustrate erosion in public support for school vaccine mandates since 2019 as also seen in other surveys.

Retrospective judgment on Covid policies leans toward viewing them as excessively damaging. Trust in figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci and associated public health directives remain low (around 28–35%), with majorities believing guidance prioritized other interests or enabled excessive restrictions.

There is also broad approval for more vaccine safety research. The results reflect an electorate (especially among likely 2028 voters) that is protective of individual medical decision-making rights.

https://brownstone.org/articles/supermajority-of-voters-support-health-and-medical-freedom-poll-shows/