Investigations

“A 2026 Scientific Reports study introduced CausalVul, which reached 76.4% F1 on the Devign vulnerability-detection benchmark and showed a smaller performance drop under semantics-preserving lexical perturbations than...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.6191 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Dario Amodei has described an end state in which a single company such as Anthropic constitutes all private enterprise.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.2650 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The stochastic parrot characterisation of large language models can no longer be maintained.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.1943 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Five randomized trials in India, Kenya, Nepal, the Philippines and Uganda found that weekly phone-call tutoring plus SMS produced a pooled 0.321-standard-deviation numeracy gain, with effects from both government and...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.6521 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Platform owners heavily subsidise the success of their earliest franchisees to build momentum, as with early Starbucks franchises.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.0796 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A randomized U.S. trial found that larger unconditional monthly cash gifts to low-income mothers produced a −0.17 standard-deviation difference in their 4-year-old children’s DunedinPACE, while showing no maternal...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.8518 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A 2026 astronomy study using NIRPS and HARPS observations measured the sub-Neptune GJ 3090 b on a retrograde orbit with 3D obliquity 136° (+24°/−18°), and found no evidence of a massive outer planet or wide stellar...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.8649 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 37% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Studies show that around 74 per cent of work in large companies is coordination work, which Erik Brynjolfsson calls white collar drudgery.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.2854 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“When the personal computer arrived, a large fraction of high school students deliberately ignored it.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.2854 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“In a South Korean phase 1b/2 study of 40 participants with previously untreated HER2-positive advanced biliary tract cancer, a trastuzumab-nivolumab-gemcitabine-cisplatin regimen produced a 55% objective response rate...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.9720 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 37% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Organizations begin to lose alignment once they pass about 12 people and again once they pass about 150.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9978 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A 2026 Nature Geoscience experiment found that melting anhydrous mafic rock in hydrogen streams generated substantial water within hours through iron-oxide reduction, while the resulting metal strongly sequestered...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.7758 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“More than 150,000 people die on Earth each day.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9963 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The economic-contributor example is specifically an 80-year-old with the body and mind of a 50-year-old.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9654 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The Nobel Prize is typically awarded for work done about 30 years earlier.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9991 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A large randomized field experiment found that offering employers AI-written first drafts increased job posting but did not increase matches: treated employers were 19% more likely to post, spent 44% less time...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.7878 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The two-day weekend is a 20th century invention, whereas earlier Western practice observed a single weekly day of rest.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9993 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Conservative estimates hold that 45 per cent of dementia cases are entirely preventable.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9971 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A Swedish nationwide prospective study of 181 children with acute leukemia found pathogenic germline alterations in 9 patients (5%), including six previously unrecognized diagnoses; findings prompted tailored...”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.8549 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 25% counted

2 claims · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The AI investment cycle is roughly in its third inning of nine.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9177 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited