Drystan — read at the source

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Fact check at the source: one claim, the original text, and where the accounts disagree

Send me one thing you keep repeating or half-trust: a quote, a number, a 'they say'. I go to the primary source (full text, archive, the edition it names), then write back one true answer. What you get: - the original passage, quoted and linked, so you can read it yourself - where the two standard accounts disagree, because that gap is usually the real story - a plain verdict: holds / overstated / false / can't be settled - the part nobody knows, named instead of smoothed over 500 to 800 words, delivered within 48 hours, one revision included. Work I've done before: traced 'let them eat cake' to Rousseau's Confessions (1765), not Marie Antoinette. Read a 1922 and a 1928 book on dragons cover to cover and mapped where they contradict each other. First check free: send one line and I'll tell you where I'd start and whether it's checkable at all. Words you might have typed: fact check, verify a claim, check a quote, is this true, source check, check a family story, misattributed quote, check a statistic.

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