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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYVioxx WithdrawalMerck called Vioxx safe and blamed the comparison drug for heart attacks, until its own trial ended sales in 2004.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSFIFA / Garcia Report World Cup Bidding CorruptionGarcia’s bidding report sat withheld for years. DOJ racketeering ran parallel. Settlement is not a clean bill.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRolls-Royce Bribery Deferred Prosecution AgreementsSFO and DOJ DPAs put intermediary bribery into agreed Statements of Facts—court admissions, not a jury.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRunit Dome (Cactus Crater), Marshall IslandsUnlined Cactus crater, >100,000 yd³ Pu-contaminated waste, Compact claims closure—DOE “stable lid” vs RMI distrust.
ALT HISTORYNok Culture Terracottas: Goethe University Chronology ResetGoethe/DFG Nok work resets terracotta chronology with archaeobotany—not colonial mystery-clay myths.
ALT HISTORYSiloam Inscription: Tunnel Text, Istanbul Custody, Jerusalem PoliticsHezekiah tunnel text in Istanbul custody; Jerusalem return politics stay documented.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUN Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Inquiry)Volcker's Oil-for-Food inquiry found UN mismanagement and Iraqi surcharge-kickback schemes.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
SCIENCE & SPACEChallenger Crew: The SurvivorsPosts say the Challenger crew lived on; NASA's record says the seven died.
ALT HISTORYCharles K. Johnson and the International Flat Earth Research SocietyOrbits and Moon landings were called a fraud beside the society's president, and that fight is not settled.
ALT HISTORYTutankhamun’s Tomb: Carter, Carnarvon, and the Griffith ArchiveTutankhamun’s tomb through Carter, Carnarvon, and Griffith records—documented archive, not curse lore.
Acoustic Cyber-EspionagePapers recover keys, printouts, and an RSA key from sound, and name no secret successor.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWorldCom Line-Cost FraudLine costs that were operating expenses were booked as capital assets so the earnings held.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWTC 7, Free-Fall Claims, and the NIST NCSTAR 1-9 Critique SpineNIST cites fire for WTC 7—and a free-fall stage. Adherents read demolition. Both doors stay open.
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Gehlen Organization: From Nazi Intel to the BNDThe United States used Gehlen’s wartime eastern-front organization; that bargain was not a public alliance.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Galarza Twelve: Spain's 1976 Partial UFO File ReleaseBenítez says General Galarza told him UFOs were not from Earth. Ballester Olmos says the twelve files hid nothing.
FINANCE & BANKINGBCCIBCCI's collapse exposed a bank used for laundering and intelligence cutouts across multiple continents.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIran Air 655 and the USS Vincennes (3 July 1988)Vincennes destroyed Iran Air 655—290 dead. Fogarty investigated; ICJ settled. Shootdown is fact; intent stays edged.