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Stories

One claim per file. Open it for the notes and the X lane, or mark the meter from the card.

Politics

A missed poll is not proof the poll was written

Horse-race surveys miss. The stronger claim says the miss was the product, not the sample.

Claim. Major public opinion polls are routinely fabricated to manufacture a horse-race narrative rather than to measure opinion.

ConspiracyTruth

92 votes

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Aliens

The crash-retrieval program is still a claim without a manifest

A hidden recovery program is a coherent story. It is not yet a program with a document trail.

Claim. A classified U.S. program recovers non-human craft and reverse-engineers them.

ConspiracyTruth

134 votes

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Movies

“Based on a true story” is a marketing grade

The card in front of the credits is a promise the film does not have to keep.

Claim. Films sold as based on a true story are usually faithful to the documented record.

ConspiracyTruth

71 votes

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