Verification Report

This report documents the independent verification of the Methodology research page.

Every factual claim on the methodology page was checked against its source data before publication. This is the first verification report on the site to draw on two separate bodies of source data — the methodology page combines quantitative validation results with the published record on research retractions, and each claim was checked against whichever of the two it came from. The source behind each claim, and its individual result, is listed claim by claim below.

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How the claims were checked

The claims on the methodology page come from two distinct bodies of evidence:

• Validation results — 16 claims covering the quantitative validation figures and how the methodology is described.
• Retraction-record claims — 7 claims covering published retraction figures and their surrounding context.

Each claim was checked at the level that fits what it asserts:

• Numerical checks confirm that a stated figure matches its source data exactly.
• Framing checks confirm that the wording faithfully represents what the source actually says — that a summary doesn’t imply more than the underlying evidence supports.

A claim is only marked as framing-checked if its wording was actually put through that check; claims that assert a number, not a characterization, are confirmed numerically. The two checks are reported separately rather than blended, so “the figure is correct” is never overstated into “the interpretation is correct,” or the reverse.

One claim carries an openly documented correction. An earlier draft described a retraction trend as “accelerating year over year”; the framing check found that the source did not support that characterization. The wording was corrected, the claim was re-checked, and it then passed. We keep that history visible rather than removing it — it appears as a worked example on the methodology page itself, showing what the framing check catches and how a correction is recorded.

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Summary

Claims checked	23 total (16 validation results + 7 retraction-record)
Result	All 23 confirmed — none unsupported, none uncheckable, none contradicted, and none left unchecked
Source data	Two bodies of evidence: the quantitative validation results and the retraction-record sources (the exact versions checked are recorded below at build time)
Verified	2026-05-21
Verified by	Veritas v1.1

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Claim-by-Claim Verification