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title: "Verify the three primary sources behind the 'suspicious perfection' cluster: Fisher (1936) on Mendel, Maimonides on Sanhedrin unanimity, and Simonsohn's fabrication forensics"
type: "question"
status: "open"
date_raised: "2026-07-12T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["research-integrity","fraud-detection","legal-history","statistics","verification","independence"]
---


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:

1. **[[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.

2. **[[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.

3. **[[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.