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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSiemens Global Bribery Settlements (2008)Siemens’s 2008 FCPA pleas and SEC disgorgement topped $1.6B. Papers show a bribery system—not one rogue payment.
SURVEILLANCECarnivore and DCSNetFBI records document Carnivore and later collection systems, and do not name a secret successor.
BIOLOGYNon-Coding DNA and the Biomessage HypothesisAdherents say junk DNA hides an alien message; biologists still fight over how much of the genome has any function.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTheranosTheranos promised blood tests from a finger prick. WSJ reporting and Holmes's trial turned the pitch into fraud.
ESPIONAGELockheed CL-400 Suntan: Liquid-Hydrogen Spyplane That Wasn'tSuntan spent real LH2 money, then died on logistics—SP-4404 records the kill, not a flown fleet.
ALT HISTORYVindolanda Tablets: Everyday Writing on Rome’s Northern FrontierVindolanda ink-on-wood tablets: birthday invites and strength reports—empire paperwork, not Wall romance.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSB-2 Spirit / Advanced Technology Bomber: Senior Ice vs Senior PegOn 20 October 1981 Senior Ice beat Senior Peg inside a black ATB contest—GAO later scored the flying wing.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLab Leak vs "Proximal Origin": The February 2020 Call TrailFebruary 2020 calls and emails precede Nature Medicine's Proximal Origin paper. Document the trail..
HEALTH & MEDICINEGuatemala Syphilis ExperimentsFrom 1946 to 1948, U.S. researchers deliberately infected Guatemalans with STDs. A commission later said so.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
SECRET SOCIETIESThe Gotthard Tunnel Opening CeremonyAdherents read the 2016 Gotthard tunnel opening show as an occult rite; its organisers and director call it Alpine myth.
HEALTH & MEDICINEDuPont C8 and the PFAS Cover TrailDuPont’s C8 file became EPA’s record TSCA penalty—and a cover-trail about what reached the Agency when.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTyco International / Dennis KozlowskiSEC civil fraud plus New York grand-larceny convictions—affirmed on appeal, then SEC bars. Lifestyle memes ≠ verdict.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Bhopal Gas DisasterManagement supplied no usable warning about the gas that left tank 610 on the night of 2-3 December 1984.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Voynich ManuscriptVoynich stays contested: cipher, hoax, or unread language. Beinecke holds MS 408. No proven translation.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kensington Runestone Debate1898 Kensington slab is real. 1362 Norse Minnesota voyage stays contested—not proven colony.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESEyes Wide Shut: The Theory That Kubrick Revealed Elite SecretsThe conspiracy that still surrounds Eyes Wide Shut is not mainly a murder story.
SECRET SOCIETIESThe Statue of Liberty: Monument to LuciferAdherents read the Statue of Liberty as a Lucifer monument; Park Service pages call it Liberty Enlightening the World.
ALT HISTORYDoggerland: The Drowned Mesolithic North SeaThe North Sea was called empty water. Seismic rivers and flint say it was a Mesolithic coast, not Atlantis.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSpirit Cave and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone NAGPRA ReturnAffiliation was refused because the remains were called too old. Control passed in 2016, not by a DNA finding.