Method & ethics
How this portal was built
A site about the world's most famous myth has one job: don't add to the noise. Here is exactly how every claim earned its label, and the rules we hold ourselves to.
Above: A science ROV — the class of vehicle that could settle the Cuba question, and never returned. Brennanphillips at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Three research passes, adversarially verified
The dossier behind this portal was assembled from three independent deep-research runs. Each fanned out parallel web searches, fetched and read the underlying sources, and then put every extracted claim through three-vote adversarial verification: independent checks attempted to refute each statement, and a claim only survived if it held up. Roughly 300 research-agent runs contributed in total.
That process is also why some "famous facts" aren't here. A claim that Aristotle called Atlantis an invention was refuted and dropped. The viral "Spartel Bank = Atlantis" match failed verification. And a fabricated paper about Maxwell's "submarine capabilities" was flagged as unreliable and excluded from every conclusion.
The four labels
- Proven — documented by primary sources or multiple reputable outlets. For textual claims, "proven" means the text demonstrably says this — not that the text is true.
- Speculative — reported, plausible, or asserted by named parties, but not established. Includes unconfirmed scientific hypotheses.
- Unproven Theory — fringe or pseudohistorical claims with no reliable basis. Documented to address honestly, not to endorse.
- Refuted — tested and failed, or traced to fabricated sources.
A distinction runs through everything: "X claimed Y" is not "Y is true." We keep them apart on every page.
Our rules for living people
The Maxwell/Epstein strand concerns a living person. We state only what is documented, we mark contested claims as contested, and we present conspiracy material exclusively to debunk it — never as fact. Sources that are blogs, forums, or fabrications are flagged with a ⚠ and never counted as evidence.
The numbers
This portal currently catalogues 41 labeled claims: 23 proven, 9 speculative, 4 unproven, and 5 refuted. Every one links to its sources in the Evidence Room.
Corrections
This is a research project, and research updates. If a label is wrong or a better primary source exists, it should be changed. The point of the ledger is that it can be checked.