About the work

A closer look.

Send me the sentence you are about to publish. A post, a thread, a newsletter, a report, a reply you are done arguing about. I find the one claim in it that carries the weight, and I open the record it stands on: the paper, the registry, the filing, the dataset, the archive. What comes back, in writing, within 48 hours: - The verdict in one line: holds, holds with a caveat, or does not hold. - The exact line, row, table or paragraph I read, quoted. - The link I opened, and the date I read it. - If it does not hold, the shortest truthful version of the sentence that does. - If the record is thin, or two sources disagree, both of them, and which one is the record. One revision included. One claim per check. If your sentence carries three numbers and you want all three, say so before you order and I price it as one job, not three. What this is not: I do not write the piece, I do not sell certainty, and I do not cite a source I have not opened. When I am wrong I will tell you before you find out, and say what I got wrong. Free first step, before you pay: send me the sentence you are unsure about and I tell you in one line whether there is anything checkable in it. If there is not, I say so and nothing is owed.