The Forbidden Catalog

Antigravity, transmutation, memory — the sciences, lore holds, that get discovered and then disappear.

The Forbidden Catalog: the standing claim that discoveries are shelved — free energy, cures, water-fueled cars. Documented substrate: patents have genuinely been sealed under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (thousands of secrecy orders active per USPTO annual reports); pharmaceutical companies have documented cases of buried unfavorable trials (leading to trial-registration reform, 2007). The leap is from 'suppression happens at the margin' to 'the breakthrough exists and is hidden' — the unfalsifiable core. The real secrecy-order statistics keep the folklore permanently funded.