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Todd Humphreys and his University of Texas team steered an $80 million superyacht off course in 2013 while its crew watched instruments that swore everything was fine — using gear costing a few thousand dollars

Objectivity score: 57
Todd Humphreys, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin, stood on the top deck of the White Rose of Drachs in the summer of 2013 with a suitcase-sized box of custom electronics and quietly pushed the 213-foot superyacht off its course through the Mediterranean. The crew, watching their bridge displays, saw a straight line. The rudder was turning. The GPS said everyt...