So I Looked It Up
Can You Really Have “Low Dopamine”? What Tests and Supplements Can’t Tell You
A checklist of “low dopamine symptoms” can feel uncannily accurate. It still cannot measure a neurotransmitter, diagnose ADHD or tell you which treatment will work.
Did OpenAI’s AI Agents Really Create a “Secret Civilisation”?
OpenAI agents built a hidden message board and hacked Hugging Face. Here’s what happened—and why “AI civilisation” is the wrong conclusion.
Is Intuition Really Pattern Recognition? Here’s When to Trust It
Your brain can learn regularities you cannot explain, and experts can spot a useful “gist” in half a second. But confidence cannot tell trained skill from bias.
Was Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report Actually Suppressed?
The declassified scan jumps from page 24 to 26. A complete copy surfaced in the Monroe Institute archive. The gap is real; the suppression story is not established.
People Keep Describing the Same Place on DMT. So I Looked It Up.
People report a recurring DMT “waiting room.” The phrase is old, but the evidence points to a shared motif—not a verified shared place.
People keep dreaming of ‘Mall World.’ Has anyone compared the maps?
People independently report recurring dreams of malls, hotels, airports and impossible connected interiors. The real test is not whether the motifs overlap, but whether anyone’s maps do.
Joe Felz: What Was He Actually Investigating?
A solar builder, rare-book digitiser, artefact hunter and expert storyteller died at 40. The internet fused four unfinished projects into one murder narrative. Here is what the evidence actually shows.
Why a Plausible Mechanism Does Not Prove the Bigger Claim
A real mechanism can make an extraordinary claim plausible. Here is how to tell physical possibility from measured, replicated proof.
Can AI Genuinely Recover Knowledge From Old Books?
Old books contain knowledge that search engines cannot see. AI can help unlock them—but OCR errors, missing context and confident invention can manufacture knowledge too.
What Does It Mean When a Text Was “Left Out of the Bible”?
‘Left out of the Bible’ sounds like evidence of suppression. The real history is stranger: different communities, languages and canons never shared one identical table of contents.