Do your claims accurately represent their sources?

Paste a report with its references. Every citation gets looked up in the literature, and every claim gets read against the paper it names, including the tables and the figures.

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Urban green space review 4 flagged
Mitchell & Popham 2008 claim 3

Mitchell and Popham (2008), analyzing mortality records for over 40 million English residents, found that income-related health inequalities were narrower in greener areas.

cited Checked against the abstract

Says 40 million mortality records; paper analysed 366,348

Li 2010 claim 1

Li (2010) reported that weekend forest walks increased natural killer cell activity by 56% and that the effect persisted for 30 days.

cited Checked against full text read from a figure

No 56% figure in text; exposure was 3-day/2-night trips

The subjects experienced a 3-day/2-night trip to forest areas… the increased NK activity lasted for more than 30 days after the trip.

▸ 31 with nothing to flag

The errors that survive a careful read

Every one of these is real, from a report we checked. None of them look wrong on the page.

Kondo et al. 2018

“Kondo et al. (2018) conducted a cluster-randomized trial in Philadelphia in which vacant lots were randomly assigned…”

Cited paper is a systematic review, not a randomized trial

Mitchell & Popham 2008

“…argued that green space acts as an ‘equigenic’ environment, one that reduces health inequality.”

Quoted term “equigenic” does not appear in this paper

Zhu et al. 2013

“An uncommon variant of CES1 encodes the nonsynonymous substitution Gly143Gln…”

Paper reports Gly143Glu, not Gly143Gln

Three steps, you watch each one

01

Every reference gets looked up

Against CrossRef, PubMed and OpenAlex. Wrong DOIs get corrected, and papers that don’t exist get named as such.

02

Full texts get fetched

Open access where we can reach it, and you can upload the rest. You see which sources are readable before anything is checked.

03

Each claim is read against its source

Prose, tables and figures. Anything that doesn’t match comes back with the sentence, the reason, and the passage it was checked against.

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