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.
- Who reached the Americas before Columbus?Non-fictionSources B14 established2 debunked1 unresolved
- What is the Universe's missing mass?Non-fictionSources A110 established1 disputed2 unresolved
- Why is Pluto no longer a planet?Non-fictionSources A15 established1 disputed2 debunked
- What caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs: the Chicxulub asteroid impact, Deccan Traps volcanism, or both?Non-fictionSources A19 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What did Cleopatra VII look like and what was her ethnicity?Non-fictionSources A14 established1 disputed1 debunked
- Who built the Egyptian pyramids?Non-fictionSources C13 established2 debunked1 unresolved
- What caused the Salem witch trials of 1692-93?Non-fictionSources C13 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What did Nero actually do while Rome burned in AD 64?Non-fictionSources B13 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- Who was responsible for the fate of the Princes in the Tower?Non-fictionSources C14 established2 disputed1 unresolved
- What became of the Roanoke 'Lost Colony' after 1587?Non-fictionSources C12 established2 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- Who wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare?Non-fictionSources B16 established1 debunked
- What really happened to Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov?Non-fictionSources B14 established2 debunked
- The Hubble tension: why do the measurements disagree?Non-fictionSources A13 established1 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- What happened to Amelia Earhart?Non-fictionSources A12 established2 disputed1 debunked1 unresolved
- Who was Jack the Ripper?Non-fictionSources C12 established2 disputed1 debunked
- Where did Marie Antoinette's 'let them eat cake' really come from?Non-fictionSources D33 established1 debunked