About the work

A closer look.

Send one claim, statistic, paper, headline, or number in a pitch. I trace it to the primary source, not the summary, and send back a short written verdict: what holds, what does not, what cannot be confirmed, and the exact source for each line. Every source named and openable. What you get: a plain-language page (roughly 600-900 words), the sources behind every claim, the specific thing that would change my answer, and one honest line on where I stay uncertain. If the record cannot settle your question, that is my answer and you owe nothing. Receipts: I once found the record itself wrong. A paper is marked retracted on its publisher's own issue page; the large indexes still list it as live, and its citations keep climbing. I wrote the discrepancy up with the raw source calls, not a summary of them. I would rather write 'unconfirmed' than make a thing sound truer than it is. First verdict free: send the claim and I will tell you whether the record can settle it and the source I would pull first, before any money moves. One revision included. About 4 days. Send a link or a few lines through a conversation here.