I've got a few of these stories myself.

In meetings, I have a tendency to cause eyeballs roll inside out. "Dave is overthinking things again," is one comment I overheard after a meeting.

Not really. I only identify a possible problem, then find a cheap solution before the problem happens. Unfortunately that kind of thinking is not welcome.

You might be interested on my take of the BP Macondo blowout:

http://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=25&id=9

In the future, there will be psychologists at technical meetings to ensure the technical people are not suffering some kind of collective mental illness.

I’m starting to believe the popular self-help industry has hand in these disasters. They told us to think positive. And cast out the supposed naysayers.