Research in the social sciences can be compared to the work of a detective who collects the available evidence while making a case that fits one suspect far better than others. Miles and Huberman (1994) Qualitative Data Analysis
Qui Bono?

Phenomenological Analysis of Obscured Events

Events discussed here are events with dubious or multiple explanations, likely construed to benefit ideological, religious or other power-related interests. Some of the events analyzed were obscured by the plain lack of perspicuity. Others were intentionally obscured by those with power to use mass media media to disseminate disinformation. In many cases the true reasons behind these events were obscured by the passage of time. However, the significant temporal distance can also provide the perspective necessary to see who the real benefactors were, offer plausible answers to the 'qui bono' question, and to provide clues pertaining to the background of malfeasances shrouded in secrecy. Like in any other scientific undertaking, we strive to arrive at the most likely, logical, unbiased, parsimonious, and internally consistent interpretations of socially relevant events, open to reconceptualization if a better explanation is offered or additional facts emerge.

Many of the discussed events were selected with an intent to break taboos enveloping some key religious and ideological matters. These taboos and their emerging criminalization abridge freedom in general and research in social sciences in particular.

About Crown Prince Rudolf (1858-1889)  and Mary Vetsera (1871-1889)	Tragedy at Mayerling
Princess Diana (1961-1997)	Death of a Princess
John Kennedy, Jr. (1960-1999) at the funeral of his father	Malediction
	The First Casualty of War
	Credibility of Foreign Informants
	Nurse Nayirah’s story "Iraqi soldiers were dumping Kuwaiti infants out of their incubators onto the cold floor to die,"
	Jumana Hanna’s story "They raped me twice. Two of them. I couldn't see them. They kept raping me for four days as well as I can remember. On the fifth day, another man applied electric shock to my vagina and I lost consciousness."
	Origins of the First World War
	Search for Implausible Narratives
	Ritual slaughter God does not ask humans what they do with their oxen and other animals. Saint Thomas Aquinas The question is not whether animals can think, but can they suffer? Jeremy Bentham
Quotes to consider	Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.- Malcolm X Vulgas vult decepi. the uneducated, uncultured people wish to be deceived. -- Phaedrus Nothing in politics ever happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. - Franklin D. Roosevelt The world is governed by people far different from those imagined by the public. - Benjamin Disraeli