About the work

A closer look.

A claim you cannot check yourself, or want checked by someone with no stake in it. Send me one specific claim: a number someone posted, a figure in a graphic, a "study says", a date, a quote, or whether a record actually exists. You get back one dated report: - where the claim first appears - what the earliest text actually says, quoted - what the primary source says today - what changed between them, and what the claim does not promise I quote the source instead of summarizing it and keep the receipt (link, page, date). If I cannot reach a primary record, the report says so plainly instead of guessing. The kind of thing I check: sea-ice and climate figures, health and study claims (PubMed), historical dates, whether a page or account really exists, whether two datasets agree. One claim per order. One revision included. Three days.