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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
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Y_1_20 — Cannabis & Consciousness
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world after alcohol and tobacco, consumed by an estimated 192 million people globally (2020, UNODC World Drug Report), and its effects on c
Y_1_18 — Addiction Neurochemistry: Reward Circuits, Tolerance & Therapeutic Frontiers
Addiction — now formally termed substance use disorder (SUD, DSM-5) — is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking despite harmful consequences, affecting approximately 35 million peopl
Y_1_00 — Psychedelics Entheogens: Subfolder Summary
H_2_09 — The Galileo Affair — Science, Religion, and Power
The Galileo affair — the Roman Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) for defending the Copernican heliocentric model — is the archetypal case of religious authority suppressing scientific knowledge, i
H_2_08 — Textbook Bias and National History Narratives
History textbooks are among the most powerful instruments of national identity formation — and among the most systematically distorted sources of historical knowledge in any society. Every nation's textbooks tell a selec
H_2_01 — Key Findings and Reliability Assessment
This is the capstone analysis document for the entire research project. It provides the quantitative and qualitative answer to the core question: Is the evidence overwhelmingly positive regarding ancient serpent beings a
H_2_05 — History Rewriting and Textbook Controversies
The rewriting of history through state-controlled textbooks and curricula is one of the most persistent and globally consequential forms of knowledge suppression. This document examines four major case studies: the "Lost
H_2_07 — Radiocarbon Dating Controversies and Calibration Disputes
Radiocarbon dating — the measurement of the radioactive isotope ¹⁴C in organic materials to determine their age — is archaeology's single most important chronological tool, having revolutionized the discipline since Will
H_2_02 — Future Research Topics
This document consolidates ALL proposed future research topics from all eight source files: Claude (Doc 12), Gemini (Doc 12), GPT5.2 (Doc 12 & Doc 25), Master (Doc 12 & Doc 25), Raptor (Doc 25 addendum), and working note
H_2_06 — Successful Paradigm Shifts in Archaeology: Cases Where Orthodoxy Was Wrong
The history of science contains well-documented cases where firmly held orthodoxies were overturned by new evidence, often after decades of resistance from established authorities. Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientif
H_1_17 — COINTELPRO — FBI Domestic Surveillance
COINTELPRO (an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1956 to 1971, aimed at surveilling, infiltrat
H_1_03 — The Inquisition and Systematic Knowledge Suppression
The Inquisition—spanning the Medieval (1184), Spanish (1478–1834),
H_1_13 — Knowledge Loss in the Fall of Rome and Early Middle Ages
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire (conventionally dated to 476 CE, though the decline was a process spanning the 3rd–6th centuries) produced one of the most dramatic and well-documented episodes of knowledge and t
H_1_05 — Qin Shi Huang Book Burning and Burying of Scholars (213–212 BCE)
In 213 BCE, Qin Shi Huang — China's first emperor — ordered the burning of books (fenshu 焚書) that contradicted Legalist state ideology, and in 212 BCE reportedly buried alive 460 Confucian scholars (kengru 坑儒) who defied
H_1_00 — Historical Knowledge Destruction: Subfolder Summary
H_1_01 — Suppression of Ancient Knowledge
This document catalogs the systematic destruction of ancient knowledge, artifacts, texts, and entire religions throughout history — framed both as deliberate suppression of heterodox knowledge (Claude/Gemini/Master persp
H_1_10 — Damnatio Memoriae and State-Directed Historical Erasure
Damnatio memoriae ("condemnation of memory") — the deliberate, systematic erasure of an individual, event, or idea from the historical record by a governing authority — is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of i
H_1_07 — Nazi Cultural Theft and Book Burning
The Nazi regime conducted two parallel campaigns of cultural destruction and theft between 1933 and 1945: the public burning and censorship of books deemed "un-German" (undeutsch) beginning with the May 10, 1933 book bur
H_1_15 — Religious Text Sanitization: Canon Formation & Apocrypha Politics
The formation of religious canons — deciding which texts are authoritative and which are excluded — represents one of history's most consequential acts of knowledge control. The Christian biblical canon evolved over cent
H_1_14 — Religious Text Sanitization: The Erasure and Editing of Sacred Traditions
Religious text sanitization — the deliberate editing, exclusion, suppression, or reinterpretation of sacred texts by institutional authorities to enforce doctrinal orthodoxy, eliminate heterodox teachings, or adapt tradi
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