How We Reason
If we're asking you to weigh evidence, you deserve to know the rules we hold ourselves to. Here they are.
No claim of fact appears without a source you can check. If we can't source it, we don't assert it.
Historical claims and faith claims are marked differently. We never present what we believe as though it were proven.
Before we answer a counterargument, we put it in its strongest form — the version a thoughtful critic would recognize as their own.
"We don't know" is a complete sentence. Where honest people disagree, we show the disagreement instead of hiding it.
When we get something wrong and it's pointed out, we fix it publicly and note what changed. See our correction log below.
We prefer primary documents and peer-reviewed scholarship over popular writing. We ask: who wrote it, when, with what access, and what they had to gain. We weight a source by the quality of its evidence, not by whether it agrees with us.
When we revise a claim, it will be listed here with the date and reason — so you can watch us hold to our own standard.