I would say about half the posts to this thread have been deleted since #1.
A lot of the deletions are because the topic has been debated to death 100's of posts / pages ago and people are too lazy to search first.
Some seem to have been driven by geopolitical concerns, defamation concerns etc
Some of the more insane theories (aliens, gods) etc get shot down
I wouldn't worry too much there are still 10,000 posts to read