Issue No. 12 — Who Checks the Checker

When two sides both swear they're right, who actually gets to check? This week: a Gaza City building collapse with dueling accounts of what struck it, a Los Angeles news helicopter crash, a disputed drone over Mecca, and a black hole blasting out winds 100 times stronger than we thought. The buried lede: the Pentagon just handed its own UFO whistleblowers a legal waiver to finally talk. The cover story spans three centuries of verification — Newton grading his own homework, a 1919 eclipse that settled Einstein fair and square, and the fastest debunking in modern science. Plus: the 41-year hoax hiding in a British gravel pit, a CEO's very bad math, and a podcast recommendation that reads the transcripts so you don't have to.