Science, Space & Technology
7 case files in Science, Space & Technology. Each lays out the claim, the origin, the evidence on every side, and an honest verdict — every point sourced, so you can judge for yourself.
Cicada 3301 was a secret recruitment puzzle run by an intelligence agency or secret society
Three rounds of ferociously difficult puzzles, posted between 2012 and 2014 and authenticated by a single consistent PGP key, sent thousands of solvers through cryptography, steganography, phone numbers, and physical posters on four continents in search of an anonymous group calling itself 3301. Who built it, and why, has never been established.
Read the case file →Most of the internet is now bots and AI, not real people
The claim that the internet is now mostly fake — dominated by bots, AI-generated content, and algorithmic engagement farming rather than real people. Security researchers really have measured automated traffic overtaking human traffic; what remains unproven is the theory's stronger claim that this is a deliberate, coordinated replacement of humanity online.
Read the case file →Nikola Tesla invented free energy, and it was suppressed
The claim that Nikola Tesla perfected a machine giving the world limitless free electricity, and that it was shut down by J.P. Morgan and corporate interests to protect the profits of the power industry. The real story is stranger and sadder: a real genius, a real tower, a real funding collapse — and no evidence any such device ever worked.
Read the case file →The Earth is flat
The claim that the Earth is a flat, stationary plane and that space agencies conspire to hide it — set against evidence anyone can gather for themselves, and the far more interesting question of why the belief persists.
Read the case file →The Earth is hollow, with a world inside it
A three-century-old idea — that the Earth is hollow and harbors an interior world — that began as a genuine attempt to explain compass anomalies by one of the 17th century's most respected astronomers, was carried by a 19th-century adventurer who wanted a federally funded expedition to prove it, and was ultimately closed off by the same tool that opened up the planet's insides for real: seismology.
Read the case file →The moon landings were faked
The claim that NASA never landed astronauts on the Moon and staged the footage to win the Space Race — and the physical, photographic and third-party evidence that shows it did.
Read the case file →We are living inside a computer simulation
The claim that our entire universe (stars, brains, and all) is a computer program running on hardware built by some other civilization. Its modern form is not a hunch but a formal argument from Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, and physicists have since debated whether it could ever be tested at all.
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