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1869 Galton's Hereditary Genius lays eugenic groundwork unproven 0 cit. Galton argued in Hereditary Genius that intelligence and ability were inherited and concentrated in certain families, an unproven claim that ignored the role of wealth and privilege. It became a foundation for the eugenics movement. science / society ●●
19 October 1927 Carrie Buck Sterilized unproven 0 cit. Carrie Buck was surgically sterilized at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, becoming the first person sterilized under the law upheld in Buck v. Bell. Later research found no evidence that Carrie, her mother, or her daughter Vivian, who died young and did well in school, were actually "feebleminded." Historians regard the case as built on fabricated evidence to secure a favorable precedent. science / society ●●
4 May 2020 COVID-19 'Plandemic' False-Flag Claims unproven 0 cit. A viral video titled 'Plandemic' and related online claims alleged that the COVID-19 pandemic was deliberately engineered or exploited by global elites as a staged crisis to expand government control and profit pharmaceutical companies. Public health agencies, virologists, and fact-checking organizations found no credible evidence supporting a coordinated 'plandemic,' though legitimate, separate scientific debate continued over the virus's origins. The 'plandemic' framing itself is a widely circulated but unsubstantiated conspiracy claim, distinct from the genuinely unresolved lab-leak versus natural-origin question. culture / politics / science ●●
July 2023 The claim of reverse-engineered alien technology, named and set aside unproven 0 cit. A recurring claim holds that the US secretly recovered crashed alien craft and reverse-engineered their technology, and in 2023 a former intelligence official repeated a version of it under oath to Congress. No verifiable physical evidence has ever been produced, and the Pentagon has said it found none, so the claim remains unproven and is set aside here. The documented secret-technology story is the black budget and classified research that produced planes like the U-2 and the F-117, which explains many sightings without any need for extraterrestrials. culture / politics / science ●