About this archive

People do not turn to ivermectin, fenbendazole or bicarbonate because they are stupid. They turn to them because they are frightened, because someone they trusted said it worked, and because medicine has, on documented occasions, lied to them. Pretending the claims don't exist has never once removed one from circulation.

So this archive does the opposite. Each entry lays out the claim as it is actually told, traces where it came from, collects the first-person accounts attached to it, and then states plainly what the trials, case reports and toxicology say. All four sit on the same page, and the reader can see the gap between them.

Alongside the cure claims are documented institutional cases — Tuskegee, the tobacco doubt playbook, the Cutter Incident, SV40 in polio vaccine, and others. They are here because they are true, and because they explain why an unearned claim can feel more credible than an earned one.

The index is grouped into three subjects: cure conspiracies, vaccine conspiracies, and world event conspiracies. The last of those reaches outside medicine — MKUltra, COINTELPRO, the Gulf of Tonkin, Flint, leaded petrol — because the pattern of official reassurance running ahead of the evidence is the same pattern, and in those cases the people who refused the reassurance were right.

The vaccine and pandemic entries are judged the same way as everything else, which means two things at once. A claim being wrong does not make the distrust behind it irrational: a defective vaccine batch really did paralyse children in 1955, a monkey virus really was distributed for eight years, a rushed 1976 campaign really did produce a nerve-injury signal, and an unresolved question about a pandemic’s origin really was declared settled for reasons that included conflicts of interest. Those are stated here as fully as the debunked claims are. And where a claim has been tested to exhaustion and failed, that is stated too, without softening.