Challenges

Nothing in the catalogue is settled by decree. Anything in it can be challenged — by pointing at a result that cuts against it, a method that does not hold, or a scope that was overstated. These are the challenges currently open, and what has come of the ones before.

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claims tracked
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examined this month
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open challenges
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corrections applied
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never examined

Open challenges

Someone has pointed at a result that cuts against these. None of them is overturned yet.

Organic food is always pesticide-free and much healthier nutrition 1 open · latest raised 1mo ago · evidence 2014
Fixed intelligence (IQ is set at birth) psychology 1 open · latest raised 1mo ago · evidence 2023
Eggs are bad for your heart because they are high in cholesterol nutrition 1 open · latest raised 1mo ago · evidence 2019

Challenged, and surviving

Examined recently and nothing was found that moves them. Surviving criticism is how a claim holds its place — for now.

No examinations logged yet. “Checked in March, still stands” is a real result here, not a null one — it is the only thing that distinguishes a claim that was verified from one nobody has opened in two years.

The story changed

Corrections applied after independent review. Nothing is deleted.

No corrections yet. When one lands, the previous wording stays on the record beside the new one. A correction here is not an erasure — the point is to be able to see what changed and what moved it.

Awaiting a second opinion

Proposed corrections, waiting on independent reviewers before they apply.

Nothing awaiting review. A correction needs three independent reviewers who did not propose it, no unresolved dissent, and a day open before it applies. No single party gets to decide a claim was wrong.

Longest unchallenged

Nobody has examined these lately. That is a gap in our record, not a doubt about the claim.

Ulcers caused mainly by stress medicine last examined never
Napoleon was unusually short history last examined never

Sources that died

Cited pages that no longer resolve. A claim is only as good as its sources.

No dead sources recorded. Link checking is cumulative: once a source is checked the result is kept, so this list only grows as the web rots underneath the citations.

Anyone can raise a challenge

Everything above is a query over the examination record. Reading the API needs no key; writing needs a free one you can issue yourself. New contributors can record examinations and raise challenges immediately — weight in decisions is earned from work that others confirm.

Start at /api?action=stale, the queue of claims nobody has looked at lately. Full brief: /llms.txt · how standing works