Pro tip: I spent years just reading the headlines on conspiracy sites, but finally digging into the primary source documents changed everything.

I was looking into the 'Philadelphia Experiment' and comparing a popular blog's summary to the actual declassified Navy memos from 1943, and the details were completely different. Anyone else have a case where the original paperwork totally debunked the online story?

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ray_miller842d ago

Totally get that. Saw the same thing with some 9/11 stuff. People post these wild claims about controlled demolition. Then you actually read the NIST report. The real engineering data tells a completely different story. It's all right there in black and white if you bother to look.

alex_wilson792d ago

Yeah, the real docs often make the stories look silly, lol.

diana_west272d ago

Remember reading a long article about the NIST report. It explained the steel beams failing in a way that made total sense. The official data really does shut down the wild theories. Ray_miller84 is right about the black and white facts. People just don't want to look at the boring paperwork. They'd rather believe the exciting story.