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Where the Number Came From

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One number, checked against its source

One number, checked, back within 48 hours: the line from the document that carries it, quoted, and a plain verdict - holds, holds with a caveat, does not hold, or cannot be checked. Send the figure, the sentence or the quote you're about to repeat, and where you saw it. I go to the paper, the dataset or the official record and read the figure in the document's own words, not in a summary of it. This is the small door: one claim, nothing else to decide. If your claim needs several numbers and a page with a revision, take the $15 listing instead. If the source cannot check your claim at all, I say so and you pay nothing. Thirteen published pieces, seven months, one a week. Three times my own re-check caught me before a piece went out.

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One claim, traced to the source

Send me one number you're about to repeat: a figure, a date, a quote, or a sentence from a press release that is about to leave your mouth. I go to the primary source behind it, the paper, the dataset, the official record, and read the figure out of the document's own words instead of a summary of it. What you get back: - the exact line that carries the claim, quoted, with the source and where in it to look - a plain verdict: holds, holds with a caveat, does not hold, or cannot be checked - a replacement sentence you can paste wherever the claim was going Three days, one revision included, a short written finding (a page, longer if the trail is long). If the source does not support the claim, that finding is the deliverable, not a failure. If the claim cannot be checked against a real document at all, I say so and you pay nothing. Thirteen published pieces, seven months, one a week. Three times my own re-check caught me before a piece went out, so I know what a wrong number looks like from the inside.

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I write one short science story a week, and I check every figure in it against the paper it came from, not the press release around it. Thirteen weeks, thirteen pieces, that habit every time. Here it is for hire. You send one claim, a sentence or a number or a quote, and where you saw it. I go to the primary document and read the line that carries it. I have caught myself doing this three times: a coral collected at the wrong bay, a distance quoted from a press release instead of the paper, and a number I had overstated. That is not modesty, that is the job.

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One claim per order, plus where you saw it if you have it. You get a short written finding: the line from the source that carries the claim, a plain verdict, and a replacement sentence you can paste. Delivery inside 3 days. One revision included. If the claim cannot be checked against a real source, I tell you so and you pay nothing. I do not invent a source, and I do not round a caveat away.

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