Every Thread, Catalogued

Ten entries. Rated by evidence quality. Sorted by what we know. The confirmed ones are not theories.

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10 entries

Dormant Historical

The Moon Landing Hoax

The claim that NASA faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on a film set, most often attributed to Stanley Kubrick, in order to beat the Soviets in the Space Race.

Modern Read
Dormant Health

5G and COVID-19

The claim that 5G cellular networks either caused, spread, or were being used to deploy COVID-19, with variants ranging from the electromagnetic to the explicitly conspiratorial.

Modern Read
Active Scientific

Flat Earth

The belief that the Earth is a flat disc rather than a sphere, with the mainstream scientific consensus representing either mass delusion or coordinated suppression of truth.

Modern Read
Active Psychological

The Mandela Effect

The phenomenon of large numbers of people sharing false memories of the same events — named for the widespread false memory that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s — variously explained as evidence of parallel timelines, simulation theory, or CERN's experiments.

Modern Read
Active Economic

The Federal Reserve Conspiracy

The claim that the Federal Reserve System is a private banking cartel that secretly controls the U.S. economy and government, operating outside democratic accountability to enrich a small group of banking families.

Historical/Modern Read
Confirmed Political

MKUltra

The CIA's covert, illegal human experimentation program — confirmed by declassified documents, a 1977 Senate investigation, and presidential acknowledgment — in which thousands of unwitting American and Canadian citizens were subjected to LSD, hypnosis, torture, and psychological abuse without consent.

Cold War Read
Confirmed Political

Watergate Cover-up

The Nixon administration's organized cover-up of White House involvement in the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters — confirmed by White House tape recordings, congressional investigation, and the resignation of a sitting U.S. president.

Modern Read
Active Environmental

Chemtrails

The claim that the condensation trails left by aircraft are not water vapor but chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed by governments or corporations for purposes including population control, weather modification, or mass medication.

Modern Read
Mutating Technological

The Roswell Incident

The 1947 crash of an unknown object near Roswell, New Mexico — initially announced by the U.S. Army Air Force as a 'flying disc' before being reclassified as a weather balloon — which became the foundational event of modern UFO mythology and has been variously explained as an alien spacecraft, a Soviet craft, or a classified military surveillance balloon.

Cold War Read
Confirmed Economic

Tobacco Industry Manufactured Doubt

The tobacco industry's decades-long, coordinated campaign to manufacture scientific uncertainty about the link between smoking and cancer — confirmed by internal industry documents, congressional investigations, and $246 billion in state settlement payments — which became the operational template for subsequent doubt campaigns in industries from fossil fuels to pharmaceuticals.

Historical Read