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ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSOlmec Colossal Heads: La Venta, Tres Zapotes, and the Mother Culture FightOlmec colossal heads + mother-culture debate—documented Gulf Coast corpus; no Atlantis/African-diffusion baptism.
SCIENCE & SPACEThree Mile Island Information ManagementKemeny's Public's Right Task Force shows TMI's public failure was information architecture—not a single cover-up slogan.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Dutch East Indies Resource WarsNationaal Archief + NIOD put oil, rubber, and plantation ledgers beside the rifle—Aceh through 1949.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBre-X Minerals Busang FraudBusang sold as world-class gold. Freeport's 8-K carried Strathcona salting. OSC charged Felderhof—and lost.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYVioxx WithdrawalMerck called Vioxx safe and blamed the comparison drug for heart attacks, until its own trial ended sales in 2004.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBernard Madoff and the SEC's Missed WarningsThe statements showed trades that were not trades, and the SEC exams did not catch it.
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
ALT HISTORYJericho’s Walls: Kenyon, Wood, and Radiocarbon Calibration FightsKenyon dated Jericho’s fall away from Joshua. Wood pushed back. No conquest stamp.
ALT HISTORYTeotihuacan's Feathered Serpent TunnelThe tunnel was told as a royal tomb. INAH published a closed conduit and offerings, and no named king.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Lydian Hoard: Met–Turkey Repatriation (1993)Treated as a legitimate purchase, the Lydian tomb goods came from looted Uşak tumuli and returned to Turkey in 1993.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEdgar Maddison Welch and the 4 December 2016 Comet ShootingHe believed a trafficking ring was inside Comet. The plea he signed says it was not, and it records the shots.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Norwegian Rocket Incident (Black Brant Scare, 1995)A Norwegian aurora rocket looked like an SLBM to Russian radars. The pad flight was fine. The warning system was not.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MarauderIn the early 1990s Project MARAUDER surfaced as a claimed magnetically fired plasma ring weapon.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
SURVEILLANCEXKEYSCORE Public SlidesTraining slides went public in 2013. NSA answered on-record. PCLOB later published redacted oversight. Stick to those.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDTWA Flight 800 Contested CausesNTSB wrote a center-tank explosion. FBI closed without a charged missile. Critics still contest the streak—L2 holds.
HISTORICAL EVENTSEbla Tablets: Discovery, Archives, and the Biblical ControversiesEbla’s tablets are real. Pettinato’s Sodom and Abraham claims were made, then challenged.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSpycatcher Affair / Peter WrightWright published Spycatcher. Lords and Strasbourg judged injunctions—not every memoir mole claim.
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.
ALT HISTORYRongorongo: Easter Island's Undeciphered ScriptHevesy tied rongorongo to the Indus script in 1932. Ferrara's 2024 wood dates point to an island invention instead.