The sourced record on contested topics
What is established, what is disputed, what is debunked - every claim with its evidence and confidence. We present the record; you decide.
- The Tongue Map: How a Re-Drawn German Graph From 1901 Faked Your Taste ZonesNon-fictionSources B19 established2 disputed2 debunked1 unresolved
- How does brain-hemisphere dominance actually work?Non-fictionSources A15 established3 disputed4 debunked2 unresolved
- The Mozart Effect: Does Mozart Make You Smarter?Non-fictionSources B15 established2 disputed5 debunked1 unresolved
- The Roman 'Vomitorium' Was a Stadium Exit, Not a Puking RoomNon-fictionSources B16 established3 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- How were the Salem 'witches' actually executed?Non-fictionSources B111 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What did Viking helmets actually look like?Non-fictionSources B18 established3 disputed2 debunked1 unresolved
- What happened when Semmelweis introduced handwashing?Non-fictionSources B18 established3 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- Stomach Ulcers: Stress and Spicy Food, or a Bacterium?Non-fictionSources B18 established2 disputed3 debunked2 unresolved
- What was Einstein's real role in the atomic bomb?Non-fictionSources C17 established2 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- What is the truth about lemming 'mass suicide'?Non-fictionSources B19 established1 disputed2 debunked2 unresolved
- What really happened in 17th-century tulip mania?Non-fictionSources B15 established2 disputed5 debunked2 unresolved
- What really happened in the Stanford Prison Experiment?Non-fictionSources B13 established3 disputed6 debunked1 unresolved
- How does the full moon actually affect human behaviour?Non-fictionSources B12 established1 disputed3 debunked1 unresolved
- Who killed John F. Kennedy?Non-fictionSources A15 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What do multivitamins actually do for healthy adults?Non-fictionSources B14 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What does MSG actually do to your health?Non-fictionSources B14 established2 debunked1 unresolved
- Where did the 10,000-steps-a-day rule come from?Non-fictionSources B14 established1 debunked1 unresolved
- How tall was Napoleon really?Non-fictionSources C35 established1 debunked
- How good was Einstein at school mathematics?Non-fictionSources C25 established1 debunked
- How visible is the Great Wall of China from space?Non-fictionSources C14 established1 debunked
- How important is breakfast, really?Non-fictionSources B14 established1 debunked1 unresolved
- What does cracking your knuckles actually do?Non-fictionSources B13 established1 disputed1 debunked
- What does sugar actually do to children's behaviour?Non-fictionSources B23 established1 debunked1 unresolved
- How much of our brains do we actually use?Non-fictionSources C14 established1 debunked