Latest debunks

• Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
• In the Middle Ages, husbands locked up their wives’ virtue with iron chastity belts before going off to war, as protection against adultery or violation.
• In Canada there are mass graves of indigenous children who died at church-run, state residential schools.
• The Dark Ages were a time of barbarism and benighted ignorance.
• We do not know who Jack the Ripper was.
• Covid was a lab leak.
• Herodotus was right about an Egyptian ship.
• We only use ten percent of our brains.
• In ye olden times, everyone believed the Earth was flat.
• German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller wrote the famous poetic words, ‘First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist,’ etc.
• U.S. diplomatic, intelligence, and military officials stationed in overseas locations, over several years, have suffered actual physical injury to brain or body due to attacks by unidentified foreign actors. [controversial but…]
• Queen Consort Marie Antoinette said ‘Let them eat cake [or brioche]’ to the starving people of Paris.
• Galileo insisted ‘And yet it moves’ (‘Eppur si muove’) when brought before the Roman Inquisition and asked to recant his heliocentrism.
• Galileo was tortured.
• Troy existed.
• Amazons existed.
• Lemmings commit mass suicide.