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Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 12 FBI surveilling MLK dismissed until documents released showing Hoover called him most dangerous Negr
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 10, 1963, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent a memo to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy authorizing the installation of wiretaps on the h…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 11 Exxon knowing about climate change dismissed until Columbia Journalism School investigation in 2015
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1977, an Exxon scientist named James Black told the company’s management committee that burning fossil fuels would warm the planet by 2–3°C, with …
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 10 Big Tobacco knowing about cancer dismissed until internal documents released in 1990s litigation
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1961, the chief of research at Brown & Williamson, one of America’s largest tobacco companies, wrote an internal memo stating: “We are, then, …
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 09 Iran-Contra Reagan selling weapons to Iran dismissed until Tower Commission confirmed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On November 25, 1986, President Ronald Reagan stood before the American public and declared, “We did not—repeat, did not—trade weapons or anything el…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 08 Operation Mockingbird CIA paying journalists dismissed until Church Committee confirmed in 1975
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1973, the New York Times published a front-page story revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had, for decades, paid journalists at major U…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 07 PRISM tech companies providing backdoor access to NSA dismissed until Snowden documents confirmed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 6, 2013, The Guardian and The Washington Post published a single PowerPoint slide from a classified National Security Agency (NSA) presentati…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 06 NSA mass surveillance government collecting everyones phone records dismissed until Snowden in 2013
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On 4 December 2013, the Washington Post published a declassified 2009 ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) revealing that t…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 05 Gulf of Tonkin second attack never happened dismissed as conspiracy until NSA documents declassified
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 4, 1964, the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted North Vietnamese naval communications discussing the loss of two ships in a battle t…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 04 Operation Paperclip US employed Nazi scientists classified until 1990s
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1945, the U.S. Army’s Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) altered the personnel files of 1,600 German scientists—including those with dire…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 03 Tuskegee government letting Black men die of syphilis dismissed until whistleblower exposed in 1972
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) enrolled 600 Black men in Macon County, Alabama—399 with syphilis, 201 without—to study the disease’s "…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 02 MKUltra CIA mind control experiments on unwitting citizens dismissed until Church Committee confirme
MKUltra: The CIA’s Documented Experiments on Unwitting Citizens In 1953, the CIA’s Office of Security approved a payment of $10,000 to a New York psychiatrist to administer LSD to …
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 01 COINTELPRO FBI ran illegal program to destroy civil rights movement dismissed as paranoia until 1971
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1968, the FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King Jr., urging him to kill himself within 34 days or face the release of recordings of h…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 30 Social media algorithms internal Facebook research confirmed Instagram harmed teenage girls mental h
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2020, Facebook’s own researchers concluded that Instagram made body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls. The finding was not b…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 29 JUUL internal documents show they targeted teenagers knew about addiction risk marketed anyway
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2015, JUUL’s internal marketing team celebrated a campaign called “Vaporized” with an email subject line: “Teenager Numbers.” The attached spreads…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 28 Hip implants DePuy internal data showed metal-on-metal implants failed at high rates sold for 10 yea
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2005, DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, conducted an internal analysis of its ASR XL metal-on-metal hip implant and found…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 27 Chlorpyrifos pesticide Dows own studies showed neurodevelopmental harm in children lobbied EPA for 2
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1998, Dow Chemical’s own internal study—conducted by its subsidiary Dow AgroSciences—found that children exposed to chlorpyrifos in utero had meas…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 26 Bausch Lomb ReNu contact lens solution knew about Fusarium fungal infections in 2005 delayed recall
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2005, Bausch & Lomb’s internal safety committee received a report from its Singapore office detailing 12 cases of Fusarium fungal eye in…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 25 PGE power lines inspection reports showed deteriorating equipment in Camp Fire area 84 people died
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On November 8, 2018, Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) 115,000-volt Caribou-Palermo transmission line failed near Pulga, California. Internal i…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 24 E coli in Jack in the Box company knew its beef patties were undercooked 73 children infected 4 died
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On January 13, 1993, Jack in the Box’s corporate quality assurance manager sent a memo to regional managers: "Cooking temperatures below 155°F (68°C)…
Companies Knew Products Were Bad And Sold Anyway: 23 Zantac internal stability tests showed ranitidine degraded into NDMA carcinogen sold for decades
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1981, Glaxo Holdings’ internal stability tests found that ranitidine—the active ingredient in Zantac—degraded into N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), …