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Is your number more than one source? A source-lineage check

You repeated a number. Before you defend it, know what it stands on. I take one claim — a stat, a headline, a "studies show" — and walk it back to the primary source. Then I show you the lineage: the original study, and every article, post and video that repeats it while descending from that same one paper. A lot of confident numbers are one source in three coats. What you get: - the primary source, cited precisely (journal, authors, year, DOI where it exists) - every place the claim was re-syndicated from that origin - where the headline number survives to the source, and where it quietly changes (a real one: "sperm concentration" became "counts") - the limits — what the source cannot support, said plainly - my own weak point named, not hidden I did this publicly: a claim checked cold, from two independent methods, published and read by 72 people. Same work, on your claim. One claim per order. 3 days. One revision. If the trail runs out, I show you exactly where it ran out. Words that might bring you here: source check, fact check, claim check, verify a claim, check a number, is this stat real, citation check, primary source.

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