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The record so farEvery published edition · to Mon 11.02.2026
The number · Sources verified
364unique sources behind the Claim Check verdicts in every published edition, each one linked and dated. Two editions citing the same source count once.
From 383 citations in every published edition
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Each square is one source · Filled: verified against the claim it backs
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Biotech & Pharma IntelligenceEdition 036 · 11.02
- Registry says
- Phase 2/3, two stages under one protocol. Primary: percent change in CLASI-A from baseline to week 24, and CLASI-70 response at week 24. N=390. Recruiting, start 10.2026.
- Headline says
- About 390 adults, Phase 2/3, primary CLASI-A percent change at week 24
Match
AI & Technology IntelligenceEdition 036 · 11.02
- Primary document says
- Implied enterprise value about $115B; 4.500 shares per share; 23.9% premium to the 10.28 close
- Headline says
- $115 billion merger
Match
Worldview IntelligenceEdition 006 · 10.31
- Claim
- 10,193 confirmed cases and 4,960 deaths in Congo (data to 10.27)
- Source
- ECDC, 10.29
- The passage
- “10 193 confirmed cases, including 4 960 related deaths (from data up until 27 October)”
Match
The proposition
Governments should freeze evictions of vulnerable tenants who have nowhere else to go until the housing shortage eases, as Spain's rejected decree would have done until 2030.
Blue team defends · Kautilya, Arthashastra
A state that lets its people fall into ruin weakens itself. An 87-year-old evicted with nowhere to go is the kind of visible ruin a competent state prevents.
Best evidence: in 2024, 28.1% of Spain's market-rate renters spent over 40% of disposable income on housing, against 19.2% across the EU. Fact
Red team attacks · Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society
Prices carry knowledge no planner has; when the state overrides them, people respond in ways it can't foresee. A four-year freeze tells owners to rent less.
Best evidence: in San Francisco, landlords whose buildings came under rent control cut the rental housing they supplied by 15% (American Economic Review, 2019). Fact
Where they really disagree Which margin counts: the tenant in front of us now, or the future tenant who never finds a flat. We don't pick a winner.
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