down.arabbithole Did the US government let Black men go untreated for syphilis? Yes. A federal panel in 1973 and a presidential apology in 1997 confirm it.
In 1932 the Public Health Service began studying untreated syphilis in 399 Black men in Macon County, Alabama. The CDC says they were told they were being treated for "bad blood".
Penicillin was the treatment of choice by 1943. The men were not offered it.
In 1972 an advisory panel said the study must end immediately. In 1997 President Clinton said the men were "lied to by their government".
The common belief that doctors gave the men syphilis is contradicted by the records. The same health service did deliberately infect people in Guatemala, in 1946 to 1948.
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down.arabbithole Did COVID-19 come from a lab? Still open. No record read so far settles it.
The records confirm the outbreak began in Wuhan in December 2019, and that the Wuhan institute did risky coronavirus work.
In March 2020 a short paper in Nature Medicine said its authors did "not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."
In December 2024 a House select subcommittee found the virus "likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident". That is the majority's finding, not a court's.
In June 2025 WHO's scientific group said the weight of evidence suggests animal spillover, but that without the data it asked China for, it "is not in a position to rule this out".
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down.arabbithole Did Hitler escape to Argentina? No. The records place his death in Berlin on 30 April 1945.
So why did the story last? Part of it came from Stalin. On 26 May 1945 he told Truman's envoy that Hitler was "not dead but hiding somewhere". That was three weeks after Soviet troops had removed the body.
The FBI filed tips that Hitler came ashore by submarine in Argentina. The file records the tips. No finding that any was true was seen in it.
In 2018 a French team examined the teeth held in Moscow. "The teeth are authentic — there is no possible doubt," its leader said. Access came from Russia's FSB and DNA could not be extracted, so that study doesn't stand alone: bunker witnesses and sworn testimony point the same way.
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down.arabbithole Are Canada's stone circles older than the pyramids? Possibly, but that's disputed.
The Majorville cairn in southern Alberta may have been started around 3200 BC, which could predate the Great Pyramid. The catch: that date comes from the styles of stone points in its layers, so it's rated Likely, not Confirmed. The wheel around it has never been dated.
Others are recent. Blackfoot families built stone wheels as memorials to chiefs and warriors from 1880 to 1940.
The star-alignment idea took a hit in 1986, when a NASA astronomer found "no statistical evidence for stellar alignments" at the sites he tested. The lost-civilisation claim is unverified.
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down.arabbithole Is the Earth flat? No. Every flat-Earth claim checked is disproven, including by believers who went to look.
In his 1865 book, Samuel Rowbotham said a boat and flag stayed visible for six miles along the Old Bedford canal. In 1870 John Hampden challenged anyone to show a curve, with £500 on it. Alfred Russel Wallace took the bet on that canal, and the umpire ruled he had shown it.
In December 2024, four flat-Earthers went to Antarctica with four globe believers and watched the Sun stay up at midnight. One of them, Jeran Campanella, said afterwards "the flat Earth doesn't work for me".
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down.arabbithole Was Shoeless Joe Jackson guilty? He took the money. Whether he played to lose is still disputed.
Under oath in September 1920, Jackson was asked if anybody paid him to help throw the 1919 World Series. "They did." How much? "They promised me $20,000, and paid me five."
In the same testimony he was asked if he did anything to throw a game: "Not a one. I didn't have an error or make no misplay."
He hit .375 but drove in no runs in the first five games, which is why both sides still argue it.
A jury acquitted all the players on 2 August 1921. The next day baseball's new commissioner banned all eight for life anyway.
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down.arabbithole Was Michael Jordan's first retirement a secret suspension? The answer so far: unknown.
Here is what makes the story stick. In 1992 he testified that a $57,000 cheque paid gambling losses. In June 1993 the NBA handed a new set of gambling claims to a former federal judge. He announced his retirement on 6 October 1993, and two days later the NBA closed its inquiry, with David Stern saying there was "absolutely no evidence" he broke league rules.
Here is the problem with it. Nothing on file records a suspension. In The Last Dance, Jordan said he didn't retire because the league suspended him, and Stern called the story "No basis in fact".
But every one of those denials comes from the NBA or Jordan, so they can't settle it on their own. It stays unverified either way.
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down.arabbithole Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? The answer so far: unknown.
Satoshi handed Bitcoin over around April 2011 and dropped out of sight. An analyst later estimated Satoshi mined about a million bitcoins. That is an estimate, and those coins have been reported as unmoved.
One name has been ruled out in court. In 2024 the High Court in London declared Craig Wright "is not the author of the Bitcoin White Paper" and upheld all 47 forgery allegations against him.
The rest are named, not proven. HBO's 2024 documentary named Peter Todd, who denies it. The New York Times named Adam Back in April 2026, and he denies it too. Nick Szabo also says he is not Satoshi.
No record proves who wrote Bitcoin. Anyone who tells you they know is ahead of the evidence.
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down.arabbithole Is there a lost city in the Grand Canyon? The answer so far: no sign of one.
On 5 April 1909 the Arizona Gazette printed an unsigned front-page story about a rock-cut cavern with mummies and copper tools, explored by a "Prof. S. A. Jordan" of the Smithsonian. Eleven days later a Flagstaff paper said it "Looks Like a Mulhatton Story", after a salesman famous for planting fake discovery stories.
Almost no other paper picked it up, and the Gazette never mentioned it again.
The cover-up theory has a fair point: the denial comes from the accused. In 2000 the Smithsonian said its anthropology files had no mention of Jordan, Kincaid or a lost Egyptian civilization in Arizona. That is its own word, so it can't settle things alone. But no other record supports a city either.
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