A knowledge platform

What do we actually know, and how do we know it?

Stratah is an open record of how knowledge is built — claim by claim, layer by layer. Each excavation traces what the evidence actually supports, how confident we can be, and where honest uncertainty lives. No consensus shortcuts. No adoption masquerading as proof.

Active excavations

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Did a second attack on US destroyers happen in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964?
No (high confidence) (Open excavation)
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Was the Surfside condominium collapse tied to John McAfee's death?
No (high confidence) (Open excavation)
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Who wrote the King's Book (Eikon Basilike): Charles I or John Gauden?
Unsettled, leans slightly toward not Charles I alone (Open excavation)
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Did Mary Queen of Scots write the Casket Letters?
Unsettled, leans slightly toward yes (Open excavation)
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Was the Flydubai FZ1073 cockpit attack of 30 September 2026 manufactured?
Unsettled, leans slightly toward no (Open excavation)
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Who invented the light bulb?
Partly (Open excavation)

Open questions

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Q-001 · The Casket Letters (1567)
Did Mary Queen of Scots write the letters used to depose her? A measured, repeatable test with every result public. Status: first result, proposed.
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Q-002 · The King's Book (1649)
Did Charles I write Eikon Basilike, or did Bishop John Gauden? Measured against both men's own writing and eight other clergy. Status: first result, proposed.

Recent updates

Oct 2026
The King's Book — second open question
The book does not carry Charles I's measured writing habits; it reads like learned clergy prose. Fits Gauden without singling him out. Not yet reviewed.
Proposed
Oct 2026
Casket Letters — first open question
The four surviving French letters lean toward Mary's own phrasing over Catherine de Médicis's. A genre confound is still open; not yet reviewed.
Proposed
Jun 2025
Piltdown Man excavation complete
Forensic measurement retires the claim. Dawson's identity held at proposed.
Refuted
May 2025
H. pylori & peptic ulcers
First discriminating test primitive. Marshall's self-experiment retires the question.
Established
Apr 2025
Flood narrative corpus
Gilgamesh, Enūma Eliš, Atra-hasis, Sumerian Flood Story as primary excavations.
Proposed
Coming
Continental drift → plate tectonics
A case where the establishment's rejection also fails Rule 9.
Queued

"Popular adoption cannot masquerade as evidence — and neither can scholarly consensus masquerade as refutation."

Rule 9 — Stratah validator

Stratah on GitHub
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