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Government & PoliticsConfirmed
The 1953 CIA Coup Against Mossadegh (Operation Ajax)
In August 1953, the CIA (Operation Ajax) and British MI6 (Operation Boot) orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to full power. The CIA acknowledged its role in a 2013 declassified internal history. The coup followed Mossadegh's nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and is widely regarded as a foundational event in modern Iranian-US relations, contributing to the conditions that produced the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
12 sources97% confidencefully sourced
Science & EnvironmentUnsubstantiated
Yellowstone Supervolcano Cover-Up
Claims that the US government or USGS is concealing evidence of an imminent Yellowstone supervolcano eruption that would devastate North America, or that seismic and geothermal data are being misrepresented to prevent public panic. The USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) publishes its monitoring data in real time. The current probability of a large-scale Yellowstone eruption in any given year is approximately 1 in 730,000.
18 sources82% confidencefully sourced
Health & MedicineDebunked
Adrenochrome Harvesting
A claim, amplified heavily by QAnon from 2017 onward, that global elites harvest a compound called adrenochrome from the blood of frightened children and consume it as a psychoactive drug or life-extension substance. Adrenochrome is a real, commercially available compound (oxidised adrenaline) with no credible evidence of psychoactive properties or significant physiological effect at any plausible dose. The claim recycles antisemitic blood-libel tropes with a modern pseudo-scientific veneer.
18 sources96% confidencefully sourced
History & Ancient CivilizationsDebunked
The Bermuda Triangle
Claims that an area of the North Atlantic bounded roughly by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico experiences an anomalous rate of ship and aircraft disappearances attributable to supernatural forces, extraterrestrials, or unknown natural phenomena. Lloyd's of London (1975) found no anomalous loss rate in the region, and researcher Larry Kusche demonstrated that many celebrated disappearances were misreported, occurred outside the claimed boundaries, or never happened.
17 sources88% confidencefully sourced