Foreign biological laboratories and international biological cooperation · Chapter 3 of 3

Methodology

How sources are selected, how claims are assessed, and what the status labels mean in this dossier.

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Sources

Every source cited in this dossier has a record in the knowledge layer with its type, publisher, language, publication date, access date and reliability notes. Primary documents are preferred. Official documents are treated as authoritative evidence for what the issuing institution states, and only for that.

Claims

Each substantive statement is stored as a Claim with a status (supported, disputed, unverified, misleading, contradicted) and a confidence level. Statuses record Baudry.ai’s current assessment given the documented evidence; they are revised when evidence changes, and the revision history lives in the repository.

What “unverified” means

“Unverified” means the repository holds no documented evidence sufficient to support or contradict the statement. It is not a polite synonym for “false” and it is not a placeholder for “probably true”. Contradictory evidence is recorded in the claim’s notes rather than resolved silently.