Checking is a job. Jobs get funded.
The published record is full of good work, and it deserves to be checked. Checking has become cheap. SaneCite does the checking in public, funded by the people who want it done.
“Open source is a graveyard of good intentions.”
Tools last when the people who rely on them fund them. Everyone agrees checking the record matters, so SaneCite is built to earn that support: the work comes first and is published whole. The ask comes second.
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7Power
You can verify every number yourself. The data, the method and all the code behind Campaign One are public under the MIT license.
Love
Built to repair the record, not to shame people. Free for anyone who needs it, with the code and data open.
Sound Mind
Flags, not verdicts. No outrage, no villains. Just the count, the evidence and the limits.
- Whole sets only. I never pick targets.
- Method published before the run. Raw results published with it.
- A flag is not an accusation. A citation error is never called fraud.
- Anyone named gets to reply. The reply is attached to the record.
- No funder pays more than about a quarter of a disputed campaign.
- A campaign that misses its finish twice loses its funding.
- My own numbers get checked too. Every correction goes at the top of the page.
Proven in compliance, now pointed at science.
SaneCite was first built for security compliance, where every answer has to trace back to approved evidence and a guess is not allowed. The same engine now reads the scientific record. Its first public job, the Phase 2 census, read 55,688 citations of retracted papers for about $30 and published every call, with its passage, for anyone to check. See the results →