I believe it often suits DARPA (Defence Advanced Projects) to have people side-lined into pursuing ridiculous theories, which include a major one that all democratic politicians are part of a large ring of pedeophiles.

This effectively keeps them from looking at a) what is being done with UFO technology and off-planet interface, b) how we are already geo-engineering our weather, and c) the experiments that are being conducted into bio-engineering human beings.

Yuri Novel Harari very effectively describes most of this in his book 21 Questions for the 21st Century.

With no eyes on them or oversight from Congress they can pretty much do what they please.