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The public evidence record
DYOR publishes research you can take apart: every question bounded, every explanation challenged, every important claim traceable.
INPUT / 01
A CLAIM
OUTPUT / 18
WHAT
SURVIVES
SURVIVES
QUESTION THE CLAIM✣QUESTION THE SOURCE✣QUESTION THE ANSWER✣
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01 / The archive
Research, with
the seams showing.
Every dossier here publishes its competing explanations, its adversarial searches—including the ones that returned nothing—and the arithmetic behind its own confidence score.
02 / The method
An answer is easy.
A surviving answer isn’t.
Search-and-summarize has no representation of what it is trying to disprove. DYOR does.
STEP 01 / SCOPE
Bound the question
Define the population, period, geography, terms, and what is deliberately out of scope.
THE RULE THAT DECIDES THE ARCHITECTURE
“Determine which explanation survives the strongest available evidence and the strongest reasonable attempts to disprove it.”— DYOR methodology
03 / Inside every report
Readable in minutes.
Auditable for hours.
The story gets you oriented. The evidence record lets you check every consequential step.
A / 01
A bounded question
Population, period, geography, definitions, assumptions, and exclusions—before the answer can move the boundary.
B / 02
An evidence ledger
Verified passages tied to content-hashed snapshots, then scored against every live explanation.
C / 03
The case against it
Pre-registered probes, contradictory evidence, alternate explanations, and the attack on the current leader.
D / 04
What remains unknown
Missing evidence, limitations, untraced provenance, and the next questions—not uncertainty swept offstage.
04 / Why this exists
Curiosity deserves better infrastructure.
Do Your Own Research is an open research engine built to resist the easiest failure mode in knowledge work: collecting only the information that supports the answer you already like.
It frames the question, proposes competing explanations, gathers traceable evidence, and attacks its own leading theory before publishing. This site is the public record of that work.
The standard
DON’T TRUST US.
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