What really happened — historical claims measured against the sources.
Claim:
During the American Civil War, political figures and residents of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory considered establishing an independent Pacific Republic separate from the United States.
NOT BS
Claim:
The first commercially produced bottles of Coca-Cola contained cocaine.
NOT BS
Claim:
In 1960, American geophysicist Harry H. Hess proposed the seafloor spreading theory using evidence from Marie Tharp's seafloor maps.
NOT BS
Claim:
Humans landed on the Moon.
NOT BS
Claim:
The population shortfall estimate underlying the “10 million” figure was calculated by comparing a 1924 national census to an expected population growth trajectory projected from 1885.
TOTAL BS
Claim:
The Democratic Republic of the Congo held its first official national census in 1984.
MOSTLY BS
Claim:
In population comparisons about the Congo Free State, increases in disease and declines in birth rate during the comparison period are incorrectly attributed to murders ordered by King Leopold II of Belgium.
MOSTLY BS
Claim:
Sources that condemned King Leopold II for abuses in the Congo Free State do not support the specific claim that King Leopold II was responsible for killing 10 million people.
HARDLY BS
Claim:
The commonly cited figure of "10 million" deaths associated with King Leopold II's rule in the Congo Free State refers to a population shortfall versus expected population growth from 1885, rather than a documented kill count.
HARDLY BS
Claim:
The first census in the Congo was conducted in 1924 and recorded a total population of 10 million.
MOSTLY BS
Claim:
There is no reliable population baseline for the Congo in 1885, so estimates of population loss during King Leopold II’s rule in the Congo Free State are largely guesswork.
HARDLY BS
Claim:
King Leopold II ruled the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
NOT BS
Claim:
Between 35,000 and 45,000 Polish Jewish refugees obtained permanent residency or naturalization in France after 1945.
TOTAL BS
Claim:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created to provide collective defense for its members, deter Soviet expansion during the Cold War, and protect Western Europe with a security guarantee backed by North American military power.
NOT BS
Claim:
NATO was created to provide a security umbrella for Western Europe backed by North American military power.
NOT BS
Claim:
Patients at Billings Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, were injected with plutonium without their knowledge.
NOT BS
Claim:
In the early 1990s, Albuquerque Tribune reporter Eileen Welsome found forgotten or misplaced classified documents at Kirtland Air Force Base describing unpublicized U.S. human radiation experiments.
SOME BS
Claim:
In the early history of the United States, United States Army leadership deliberately used smallpox as a biological weapon against Indigenous peoples in North America by distributing smallpox-contaminated items to them.
TOTAL BS
Claim:
During Diego Maradona's playing career, the Argentina men's national football team gave a Brazil men's national team player a bottle of water containing a tranquilliser during a match period.
HARDLY BS
Claim:
In Western fashion and beauty standards, the ideal female body silhouette in the 1910s was tall, slim, and elongated, and during World War I it shifted toward a more natural and practical shape.
HARDLY BS
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