The index

Every claim, and whether it survived

Updated whenever anything is published or corrected. Last change 3 August 2026.

Most publications bury their corrections. This is the opposite: one page listing every factual claim the site has made, what happened when it was checked, and where it came from. Including the ones that turned out to be wrong.

How a claim gets a verdict

Holds up

Backed by a source I could actually read, cited with method and sample size where there is one. Strong enough to build an argument on.

Shaky

Used, but weak. Small samples, wrong genre, self-reported, or an industry norm nobody publishes. Quoted with the weakness named rather than hidden.

Didn't survive

Believed going in, then checked, then dropped or corrected. This is the section that makes the other two worth anything.

Nothing gets published here without going through that sorting, and nothing gets quietly edited afterwards. When a number changes, the page says what it used to be, what it is now, and when it moved. The distributor pricing article carries four such corrections at the bottom, all made on the same day the figures were verified against official pages.

Spotted something wrong? That's the point of the page. Tell @coolturkeyCT and it gets corrected, dated, and added to the list.