Citation-heavy investigations into numbers everyone repeats and nobody checks. No advertisers, no agenda, no sponsor. Primary sources, the arithmetic behind them, and a limits section on every page naming what the review got wrong.
Social isolation carries a 32% increased risk of death across 90 cohort studies and 2.2 million people. Friendships loosen within sixty days of silence, and nine in ten of the relationships connecting you to a different world are gone inside a year.
Mailchimp sold for $12B having raised nothing, over twenty years. Ninety-five per cent of venture funds fail to return adequate capital, and premature scaling kills 74% of high-growth startups. The pattern underneath is forty years old.
An audit of 107 personal projects. For thirty-five the live deployment was the only copy anywhere; two were deleted before recovery and are gone. The mortality fell on the cheapest projects, not the hardest, and nothing died of a technical cause.
Global missions raises billions a year and publishes almost nothing about what its work costs or whether it lasts. The statistic everyone quotes traces to a 404'd endorsement blurb; "missionary retention" returns one paper in 250 million; and 148 rated ministries file no public accounts anywhere.
A 2020 Tesla Model X carries ~23 tons of CO₂ debt before it drives a mile — battery, aluminum body, motors, copper, and rare earths. An interactive model with adjustable grid, driving, and chemistry assumptions shows how the carbon break-even actually pencils out.
An evidence review of chiropractic subluxation theory — 26 peer-reviewed citations, documented adverse effects, the MaxLiving franchise model, and why a $28 billion industry rests on an unproven 1895 hypothesis.