Unsupported Reviewed Oct 15, 2026
Famous disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle are real historical incidents, but memorable cases do not establish a higher risk per voyage or flight. NOAA says there is no evidence of unusually frequent mysterious losses. A 2022 analysis examined maritime and aviation incident records but lacked the traffic-exposure denominators needed to compare disappearance rates with other regions. The elevated-rate claim is unsupported; the exact comparative rate remains uncertain.
Unsupported Reviewed Oct 14, 2026
Eugene Mallove was murdered, but a January 2025 appellate decision ordered vacatur of one defendant’s convictions and a new trial after a due-process violation. Neither this case nor a defined comparison rate establishes widespread motive-linked murder of disruptive-energy inventors.
Misleading Reviewed Oct 11, 2026
Classified programs such as CORONA, A-12 and F-117 genuinely preceded public acknowledgment, so public knowledge is not complete. But historical secrecy does not provide evidence for any particular extraordinary claim; each capability still requires claim-specific evidence.
Contradicted Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Excess mortality persisted after vaccine rollout and rare serious vaccine adverse events are real, but large linked individual-level and self-controlled studies do not show the population mortality increase predicted by a claim that vaccination caused a substantial share of excess deaths.
Unsupported Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Parasitic infections are common in many endemic regions and can be asymptomatic or produce nonspecific gastrointestinal, skin or systemic symptoms. But risk is strongly shaped by geography, sanitation, travel, food, water and exposure, and major public-health guidance does not support assuming that most people with ordinary nonspecific symptoms have parasites. Diagnosis is based on exposure context and appropriate stool, blood or other testing.
Unsupported Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Analytical false positives occurred and low-prevalence screening could sharply reduce positive predictive value. High Ct values also correlate with lower infectious-virus recovery. These are real issues, but they do not establish that false positives materially inflated overall official case counts.
Contradicted Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Death certification was imperfect and individual over-attribution occurred, but U.S. rules did not define every positive test as a COVID death. Direct validation and excess-mortality studies point against substantial systematic net overcounting from incidental infection.
Contradicted Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
The vaccine-autism claim has been tested in large cohort studies, case-control studies, meta-analyses and evidence reviews. A 2019 Danish cohort of 657,461 children found no increased autism risk after measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination, including among children with elevated baseline risk, and a 2014 meta-analysis summing more than 1.2 million cohort study enrollments found no increased autism risk associated with vaccination, MMR, thimerosal or mercury exposure; overlap among contributing national cohorts means this is not a verified count of unique children. The 1998 paper that catalyzed the MMR claim was a 12-child case series, did not establish causation and was later retracted.
Misleading Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Polygraph comparison-question tests often classify deception above chance in controlled studies, and a 2021 meta-analysis reported substantial discrimination. But the measured physiological responses are not specific to lying, field validation is difficult, accuracy varies by protocol and population, and screening applications are especially vulnerable to false positives. Calling the polygraph a generally reliable individual lie detector overstates what the evidence supports.