https://persuasiondissected.com/ Nobody is carried across. Here are the stones. en https://persuasiondissected.com/persuaders/animal-magnetism/https://persuasiondissected.com/persuaders/animal-magnetism/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTNine royal commissioners wrote in 1784 that animal magnetism without imagination “produces nothing.” Here are their blindfold, orchard and paper-door tests. https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/boston-massacre-trial/https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/boston-massacre-trial/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRevere’s print showed a straight line and a raised sword. In the 1770 trial record, witnesses split on who said “fire,” and six of eight soldiers went free. https://persuasiondissected.com/movements/chartist-movement/https://persuasiondissected.com/movements/chartist-movement/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTA Commons report says Feargus O’Connor announced 5,706,000 Chartist signatures in 1848. It counted 1,975,496, and he rejected that count the same day. https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/congress-of-vienna/https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/congress-of-vienna/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTBy Talleyrand’s own report, he objected to “allies” at the Congress of Vienna in 1814. He says they called it shorthand and took back the paper, not the word. https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/dreyfus-affair-zola-trial/https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/dreyfus-affair-zola-trial/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTJ’accuse dared France to try Zola. By this site’s count the 1898 charge used 106 of its 4,494 words and left out the clause on a secret document. https://persuasiondissected.com/cons/fiji-mermaid/https://persuasiondissected.com/cons/fiji-mermaid/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTBy P. T. Barnum’s own 1855 account, three letters he wrote came before the Fiji Mermaid show. No 1842 paper could be read, so each step is marked per Barnum. https://persuasiondissected.com/persuaders/four-minute-men/https://persuasiondissected.com/persuaders/four-minute-men/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTBy George Creel’s own accounting, 250,000 of the Four Minute Men’s 755,190 speeches were estimates. His 1920 book also prints 7,555,190 on another page. https://persuasiondissected.com/cons/great-moon-hoax/https://persuasiondissected.com/cons/great-moon-hoax/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn 1835 the New York Sun told readers of life on the moon. As reprinted in 1917, its editorial of 16 September still would not confess the story was a hoax. https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/lizzie-borden/https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/lizzie-borden/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn June 1893 a court kept Lizzie Borden’s inquest testimony from her jury, which acquitted her that month. What was left out, and what the record can’t settle. https://persuasiondissected.com/movements/luddites/https://persuasiondissected.com/movements/luddites/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn Nottinghamshire in 1812 a Luddite song aimed at wide frames and frames that cut prices. An owner at Lenton said five full-price frames were broken anyway. https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/melian-dialogue/https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/melian-dialogue/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn Thucydides, Melos kept Athenian envoys from its people. The Melian Dialogue is his written version, not minutes: who heard it, what Melos refused, the end. https://persuasiondissected.com/movements/montgomery-bus-boycott/https://persuasiondissected.com/movements/montgomery-bus-boycott/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe boycott ran 381 days by this site’s count, 5 December 1955 to 20 December 1956, ending 37 days after the Supreme Court affirmed, per the Park Service. https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/munich-agreement/https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/munich-agreement/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe paper Chamberlain showed on his return from Munich was not the Munich Agreement. Hansard and a BBC transcript show a second note, signed by two men. https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/sewards-folly/https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/sewards-folly/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy “Seward’s Folly”? His son listed it among the jeers. A House vote of 93 to 43 in 1867 was on the rules, for a resolution its mover said spared Alaska. https://persuasiondissected.com/persuaders/sleeper-effect/https://persuasiondissected.com/persuaders/sleeper-effect/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTA 2004 review of 72 data sets: discounted messages rose d+ 0.08; no-message baselines averaged the same, not significantly above zero. Narrow conditions differ. https://persuasiondissected.com/cons/subliminal-advertising/https://persuasiondissected.com/cons/subliminal-advertising/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTA 1958 paper in a CIA journal wrote that a popcorn sales rise “is said to have been stimulated” by film flashes. Later papers say fictitious, with no citation. https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/trial-of-socrates/https://persuasiondissected.com/on-trial/trial-of-socrates/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPlato’s Socrates says 30 switched votes would have freed him; Diogenes Laertius says he lost by 281 more. Why the two clash, and what the record can settle. https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/yalta-conference/https://persuasiondissected.com/bargaining/yalta-conference/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Yalta text on Poland says “reorganised” and then “This new Government.” The American record shows how the wording formed and who read it which way.