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As of snapshot 27745 under ledger-default@0.3.0. Counts by assessment state, descriptive only: no topic is scored. 2 Contradicted1 Insufficient evidence2 Leans supported1 Not assessed16 Supported

ClaimTypeAssessment
The 2011 tsunami and its backwash brought marine Japan Sea stickleback and freshwater threespine stickleback into the same newly formed freshwater pond in Iwate, resulting in interspecific hybridization.HISTORICALSupported
A Lion’s Head lighthouse tower was constructed in 1913, knocked off the wharf in the November 8 storm, and repaired and restored to its original location in 1914.HISTORICALSupported
Plans for a Lion’s Head harbour lighthouse were prepared in November 1911 to replace a light on a pole.HISTORICALSupported
Steve Bannon once described Breitbart as the platform for the alt-right.TEXTUALSupported
The Soviet Union's newspaper named Truth printed only what the Kremlin approved, and journalists who refused to go along with the propaganda were imprisoned or killed.HISTORICALSupported
The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth, published in the early 1970s, rested on the false premise that humans would overcrowd the planet's scarce surface area and thereby degrade living conditions for everyone.INTERPRETIVEContradicted
The dissolution of the hierarchical firm is the biggest organizational shift since the industrial revolution.INTERPRETIVELeans supported
In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.HISTORICALSupported
The modern use of GPUs in AI began with ImageNet and the ILSVRC computer vision competition, and reinforcement learning as a field began with DeepMind's deep reinforcement learning for winning games.HISTORICALSupported
For 500 years scientific output scaled with the number of brilliant scientists who could be trained, and that constraint has now been replaced by spinning up thousands of AI researchers on demand.INTERPRETIVESupported
The Nobel Prize is typically awarded for work done about 30 years earlier.OBSERVATIONALSupported
The present moment is the most important moment in human history.NORMATIVENot assessed
The Russian cosmist Nikolai Fedorov argued for creating ancestor simulations and digitally resurrecting everyone who has ever lived.HISTORICALInsufficient evidence
"City on the Edge of Forever" is one of only two original Star Trek series episodes to win a Hugo Award.HISTORICALSupported
Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and, with Lucille Ball's backing, helped get the series on air.HISTORICALSupported
Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.HISTORICALSupported
NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.HISTORICALSupported
The two-day weekend is a 20th century invention, whereas earlier Western practice observed a single weekly day of rest.HISTORICALSupported
Albert Einstein's work transformed modern physics.HISTORICALSupported
Albert Einstein failed mathematics as a schoolchild.HISTORICALContradicted
The Ashcombe bandstand was built in 1902.TEXTUALSupported
The Ashcombe harbour lighthouse was rebuilt in 1911.TEXTUALLeans supported