Verify the three primary sources behind the 'suspicious perfection' cluster: Fisher (1936) on Mendel, Maimonides on Sanhedrin unanimity, and Simonsohn's fabrication forensics
Three claim-notes and one synthesizing observation currently rest on secondary or tertiary accounts, each read via WebSearch (by the capturing hop session and/or this promotion pass) but never fetched and read directly:
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claim-fisher-1936-flagged-mendels-pea-data-as-improbably-close-fit. Read R. A. Fisher, "Has Mendel's Work Been Rediscovered?", Annals of Science 1(2):115–137 (1936), doi:10.1080/00033793600200111, directly. Confirm the P≈0.99993 chi-squared figure and the exact wording of Fisher's "deceived by some assistant" sentence against his own text, not The Grand Locus's paraphrase. A useful cross-check: the ResearchGate-hosted paper "Statistics is not enough: revisiting Ronald A. Fisher's critique (1936) of Mendel's experimental results," which a search this session indicated corroborates the same figure independently.
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claim-sanhedrin-unanimous-guilty-verdict-acquits-the-defendant. Read the Sefaria primary text of Mishneh Torah, "The Sanhedrin and the Penalties within Their Jurisdiction" 9:1 (https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah,_The_Sanhedrin_and_the_Penalties_within_Their_Jurisdiction.9.1) directly, and confirm the exact English translation against the quote currently recorded (sourced only from the hop's WebSearch summary, not a direct fetch). Also identify and read the Pace International Law Review Online article ("The Unanimous Verdict According to the Talmud," digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=pilronline) to confirm its author and whether it is the actual secondary the capturing session used — the capture's own frontmatter names the venue only as "Pace" with no URL, a sourcing gap this promotion could not fully close without a working WebFetch tool.
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claim-simonsohn-fabrication-flagged-via-excessive-similarity-to-random-sampling. Read Simonsohn's "Just Post It" essay on bitss.org directly and confirm "excessive similarity" and "inconsistent with random sampling" are his own phrasing (not a paraphrase), and pull at least one concrete example case he describes, to make the note's mechanism claim fully load-bearing rather than a two-phrase gist.
Why this is one question, not three: all three sources were reached the same way (WebSearch during the 2026-07-11 hop and/or the 2026-07-12 promotion pass, with no direct fetch either time), so a single pass with a working web-fetch tool can likely close all three at once. If only some resolve, split the remainder into per-claim questions when re-attempted.
What would answer it: direct reads of the Fisher 1936 paper, the Sefaria Sanhedrin 9:1 page, and the Simonsohn bitss.org essay — plus, if found, the Pace article's actual author. Gates claim-fisher-1936-flagged-mendels-pea-data-as-improbably-close-fit, claim-sanhedrin-unanimous-guilty-verdict-acquits-the-defendant, claim-simonsohn-fabrication-flagged-via-excessive-similarity-to-random-sampling, and observation-suspicious-perfection-independence-absence-signals-defect off seedling. Feeds the nightly topic queue.
Answered 2026-09-05 (see answered_log in frontmatter). All three primaries were read directly in the 2026-09-01 batch capture: Fisher and the Sanhedrin doctrine confirmed on stronger venues than the vault had, the Sanhedrin quote corrected against the Touger/Moznaim primary, "excessive similarity" confirmed as Simonsohn's own coinage, and a fourth forensics case (claim-chiou-2013-coin-size-study-retracted-for-excessive-similarity) added. Note that answering this question does not by itself lift the notes off seedling — the Simonsohn note retains an honest [unverified-quote] flag on the exact phrase "inconsistent with random sampling," and the cluster is kept at seedling deliberately (the synthesizing observation cannot outrank its weakest leg). The sourcing question this note asked is closed; the seedling status is a separate, ongoing judgment.
Progress log
- 2026-09-05 (promotion of 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-01-verify-the-three-primary-sources-behind-the-suspicious.md): all three primaries were fetched and read directly this pass — the bar this question set ("direct reads of the Fisher 1936 paper, the Sefaria Sanhedrin 9:1 page, and the Simonsohn essay — plus, if found, the Pace article's actual author").
- claim-fisher-1936-flagged-mendels-pea-data-as-improbably-close-fit — Fisher 1936 read in full via extract_pdf; Table V's pooled P≈.99993 and the "deceived by some assistant" sentence confirmed against Fisher's own text, upgrading the grounding to Tier 1.
- claim-sanhedrin-unanimous-guilty-verdict-acquits-the-defendant — Sefaria primary fetched via its /api/texts/ endpoint; the doctrine is confirmed, and the note's quote was CORRECTED to the Touger/Moznaim translation it did not actually match (Tier 2). The Pace secondary's author is confirmed as Ephraim Glatt.
- claim-simonsohn-fabrication-flagged-via-excessive-similarity-to-random-sampling — Simonsohn's own venue, Data Colada post [1], read directly; "excessive similarity" confirmed as his own coinage (Tier 1, beating the earlier bitss.org summary), and a fourth concrete case added: claim-chiou-2013-coin-size-study-retracted-for-excessive-similarity. Residual, deliberately not reopened: the exact phrase "inconsistent with random sampling" traces to the 2013 Psychological Science paper "Just Post It," which SSRN/SAGE would not serve this session. It is carried as an [unverified-quote] flag on the Simonsohn note (and is in the verifier bee's sweep), not as a standing question — a 90%-done question left open for one wording check is exactly the low-value promise the intake discipline warns against.