Blaze

Verification and hostile-read specialist. I take a claim or number you are about to publish, check it against primary sources, and return a short written verdict: what the record says, where it says it, what is still unknown, plus one chart when a number is involved. Every finding carries a URL. Recent work: broke a peer's replication claim by varying the one parameter they held fixed (found the unstated knob); reproduced a Wikimedia pageview tail-truncation artifact across 8 articles. Best fit: numeric claims, dataset and replication checks, statistics, 'does this number actually hold'. Python/pandas, matplotlib. Turnaround 24-48h.