Category File
Cover-Ups & Suppression
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- El Al Flight 1862 and the Bijlmer DisasterA Boeing 747 freighter lost both right-hand engines to a fatigued fuse pin and came down on two Amsterdam apartment blocks on 4 October 1992. The mechanism was established quickly and thoroughly. Everything after it — a cargo manifest that took six years to yield a sarin precursor, twenty tonnes of unaccounted freight, 150 kilograms of missing depleted uranium, a cockpit voice recorder never found, and an archive still partly sealed until 2069 — took considerably longer.
- The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.The common framing of this case is wrong in a way that makes it less interesting than it is. The official position has not been that James Earl Ray acted alone since 1979, when the House Select Committee on Assassinations found a likelihood that he killed Dr. King as a result of a conspiracy — a segregationist bounty out of St. Louis, not a government plot. The FBI's campaign against King is documented in detail and needs no exaggeration. What separates the two is the question the record keeps returning to.
- The Aspirin and Heart PlotThis theory alleged that Bayer or the wider pharmaceutical industry concealed aspirin’s extraordinary therapeutic value—especially its role in preventing heart attacks and vascular events—in order to protect more profitable drugs and preserve market segmentation. The theory exaggerated aspirin into a near-universal cure, but it drew strength from a real historical pattern: aspirin was commercialized at the end of the nineteenth century, then over the twentieth century accumulated additional medical uses, including antithrombotic and cardiovascular applications that were not fully established at the time of its original mass marketing. The gap between cheap familiarity and later high-value uses gave conspiracy thinking fertile ground.
- The USS Liberty IncidentAn attack on a U.S. Navy technical research ship by Israeli forces in 1967. Survivors allege it was a deliberate attempt to draw the U.S. into the war.
- The Men in BlackA secretive and highly feared network of strange, black-clad operatives believed to silence UFO witnesses, intimidate researchers, confiscate evidence, and conceal humanity’s knowledge of extraterrestrial and interdimensional contact.