Public investigations, reconstructed from the record
Think like an investigator.
Drug approvals. Plane crashes. Autonomous systems. Rebuilt from the primary record, so you can see how the story actually happened.
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The institutions
Modern life runs on their decisions. Every decision leaves a record.
FDA
Drug approvals · Drugs@FDA
NTSB
Accident investigations · dockets
FAA
Aviation certification · airworthiness
NHTSA
Vehicle safety · defect investigations
Close to home
The medicine prescribed to you. The plane you boarded. The systems making decisions around you.
Behind each is a public record of how it came to be.
The cases
See how the story unfolds
Click a case to explore the reconstruction. Every one rebuilt from the record.
Drug approvals
Aduhelm2021Drugs@FDA · BLA 761178Accelerated approval for Alzheimer's, over the advisory committee's objection.open →Leqembi2023Drugs@FDA · lecanemabFrom accelerated to full approval in about six months.Coming soonVioxx1999Drugs@FDA · rofecoxibApproved for arthritis; withdrawn in 2004 over cardiovascular risk.Coming soonGleevec2001Drugs@FDA · imatinibA targeted cancer therapy that rewrote the playbook.Coming soonSovaldi2013Drugs@FDA · sofosbuvirA hepatitis-C cure and the $1,000-a-pill debate.Coming soonMifepristone2000Drugs@FDA · RU-486Approved under Subpart H; litigated for decades after.Coming soonComirnaty2021Drugs@FDA · COVID-19From emergency use to full approval.Coming soonZolgensma2019Drugs@FDA · gene therapyGene therapy at the price frontier.Coming soonMakena2011Drugs@FDA · withdrawn 2023Accelerated in 2011, then pulled in 2023.Coming soon
Crashes
Tesla Model X2018NTSB · HWY18FH011Autopilot steered into a highway barrier in Mountain View.open →Uber test vehicle2018NTSB · HWY18MH010The first pedestrian killed by a self-driving car, Tempe AZ.Coming soonUS Airways 15492009NTSB · AAR-10/03Dual bird strike; ditched on the Hudson with no lives lost.Coming soonColgan Air 34072009NTSB · AAR-10/01A stall on approach that rewrote pilot-rest rules.Coming soonAsiana 2142013NTSB · AAR-14/01A short approach and the limits of automation reliance.Coming soonBoeing 737 MAX2018/19MCAS · Lion Air / EthiopianWhat the certification record showed about a new flight-control law.Coming soonEl Faro2015NTSB · MAR-17/01A cargo ship sailed into a hurricane and was lost.Coming soonAmtrak 1882015NTSB · RAR-16/02Overspeed into a curve at Frankford Junction, Philadelphia.Coming soonTWA 8001996NTSB · AAR-00/03A center-fuel-tank explosion that took four years to explain.Coming soonValuJet 5921996NTSB · AAR-97/06A cargo-hold fire from mislabeled oxygen generators.Coming soon
The films
Ninety seconds to the heart of it.
Each case, told like a story, then opened like a record.
Aduhelm
Drugs@FDA · BLA 761178
Tesla Model X
NTSB · HWY18FH011
The record
It starts with the actual record.
Fifty-nine files from the docket, dragged straight into the Workspace. Nothing summarized. Every claim traces to a source.
Every document keeps its citation, retrieval date, and content hash. Read the method →
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