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  1. 1614 The Monita Secreta Forgery debunked 0 cit. A book called the Monita Secreta claimed to reveal secret Jesuit instructions for gaining wealth and power. It was a forgery, written by a disgruntled former Jesuit, and became a staple of anti-Jesuit propaganda. religion / society ●●
  2. 1851 Cartwright invents "drapetomania" to justify slavery debunked 0 cit. Physician Samuel Cartwright coined "drapetomania," a fake disease he said made enslaved people flee bondage. It is a stark example of pseudoscience used to defend slavery and deny the humanity of the enslaved. science / society ●
  3. 1903 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Forgery debunked 0 cit. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a proven antisemitic forgery that falsely claims to record a Jewish plot for world domination. It was fabricated in Russia and has been used ever since to incite hatred and violence against Jews. politics / society ●●●●
  4. 1903 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a proven forgery debunked 0 cit. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first printed in Russia in 1903, pretend to be the minutes of a secret Jewish plan to control the world's finance and governments. They are a fabrication, plagiarized from an earlier French satire that had nothing to do with Jews, and were exposed as a forgery by The Times of London in 1921. The whole idea of a Jewish plot to run world finance rests on this fake document and must be rejected outright as antisemitic invention. politics / society ●●●
  5. August 1921 The Protocols Exposed as a Forgery debunked 0 cit. The Times of London demonstrated that the Protocols were plagiarized from earlier satirical writings and were a forgery. Despite repeated exposure, the fabricated text continued to circulate among antisemitic movements. politics / society ●●●
  6. 18 July 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race rejects the pseudoscience debunked 4 cit. UNESCO published its 1950 Statement on Race, arguing that for practical social purposes race was "not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth" and rejecting racial hierarchy after Nazism and genocide. A 1951 follow-up kept the antiracist conclusion while clarifying the biological wording. science / society ●●●
  7. 4 April 2005 IRS rejects the all-caps strawman name theory debunked 2 cit. IRS Revenue Ruling 2005-21 directly rejected the claim that different capitalization formats create a separate strawman entity that can carry tax debts instead of the human taxpayer. It also rejected the idea that an all-uppercase name has legal significance for federal tax purposes. This is the cleanest source for uppercase name versus lower case name claims. economy / politics / society ●●●●●
  8. 21 November 2006 Botched raid kills Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta debunked 0 cit. Atlanta narcotics officers used a no-knock warrant to break into the home of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman, who fired once in fear and was killed in the return fire. Investigators found the warrant rested on a fabricated informant tip, and officers later admitted planting drugs and lying, drawing federal convictions. The case became a widely cited example of how paramilitary drug raids on bad information could turn deadly for innocent residents. politics / society ●●
  9. 1 September 2011 FBI describes redemption theory as sovereign-citizen fraud debunked 2 cit. The FBI described redemption theory as a sovereign-citizen scheme claiming that the government uses citizens as collateral, that birth certificates and Social Security numbers register hidden Treasury accounts, and that a third-party strawman can be accessed through UCC and IRS forms. The FBI framed these tactics as fraud and as a source of paperwork attacks, intimidation, and sometimes violence. politics / society ●●●●●
  10. 2020 The Myth of the Pure Tribe debunked 3 cit. The colonial idea that Kenya was divided into ancient, unmixed tribes with separate bloodlines does not survive contact with the genetic evidence. Every group carries a mix of Cushitic, Nilotic, Bantu and forager ancestry, and communities absorbed newcomers and neighbours throughout their history. A tribe is a cultural and linguistic identity that people can join, leave and reshape, not a sealed genetic lineage. The DNA discredits the notion of pure descent that the label implies. culture / science / society ●●●●
  11. 2020 Genetics Undercuts Political Tribalism's Founding Claim debunked 2 cit. Kenyan politics has long been organised around tribe as if each community were a fixed, separate stock with its own claims and grievances. The genetic record removes the biological foundation from that idea, showing shared and overlapping ancestry across every group. This does not erase real cultural and linguistic identities or the history of how colonial rule hardened them. It does strip away the false premise of ancient pure blood that hardline tribal politics leans on. politics / science / society ●●●
  12. 4 October 2024 Courts reject admiralty-law and gold-fringe jurisdiction claims debunked 2 cit. Recent courts continue to reject claims that common-law people escape statutes because courts secretly operate in admiralty, because governments are corporations, because a flag has fringe, or because a name is capitalized. State v. Brown and Noles v. United States summarize these theories as sovereign-citizen arguments repeatedly rejected as frivolous. politics / society ●●●●●
  13. c. 2026 TreasuryDirect warns that birth certificate bonds are fictitious debunked 2 cit. TreasuryDirect warns that claims about birth certificate bonds, exemption accounts, and savings bonds held in a person's name are false. A birth certificate is not a negotiable instrument, and the supposed exemption account does not exist in the Treasury system. This directly answers the birth-certificate-bond version of the strawman myth. economy / politics / society ●●●●●