verification-method

16 notes carry this tag — 5 mocs, 5 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

the physics is public

essay draft 2026-07-22 · osint, verification-method, patriot-missile, burevestnik, mit

Everything else

The ground analog that fits bone better than muscle — head-down bed rest as a readout-dependent model of spaceflight musculoskeletal loss, and how matching the instruments inverted the field's working assumption

topic map 2026-08-20 · space-medicine, aerospace-physiology, bone-density, bed-rest-analog, disuse-osteoporosis
Reconstructed in public, unconfirmed in fact — the Burevestnik, rebuilt from open physics down to a detectable signature no one has been able to check

topic map 2026-08-19 · burevestnik, osint, nuclear, reactor-physics, arms-control
The hand that beat the machine — until the machine measured rounder: an Avogadro-sphere craft legend that thinned as its sources were chased, over a metrology that stayed Tier 1

topic map 2026-08-15 · metrology, craftsmanship, tactile-cognition, measurement-history, avogadro-constant
Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
Too clean to be real — a room-temperature-superconductivity claim unmade by forensic reading of the published data, not by failed replication

topic map 2026-08-14 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
The number that outran its evidence — the Patriot's Gulf War success rate, and how it fell from 96% to ~9% under public-data review

topic map 2026-08-13 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, congressional-oversight, verification-method
Did GAO/NSIAD-92-340 find that only about 9% of claimed Patriot Scud kills met its 'strongest evidence' standard?

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, military-engineering
GAO found the Army's Patriot kill claims rested on an internally inconsistent spreadsheet and a ground-damage survey covering only about a third of Saudi engagements

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, military-engineering, verification-method
GAO/NSIAD-92-340 graded its Patriot kill evidence in two tiers: a 'strong evidence' tier (~9%) and a non-probative 'lesser evidence' tier (~16%)

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, verification-method
Lewis and Postol's 1991–93 analysis of news-camera footage found no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, osint, verification-method
MIT researchers used publicly available data and first-principles physics to contest official military claims in both the 1991 Patriot debate and the 2026 Burevestnik reconstruction

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · osint, verification-method, mit, cross-domain-bridge, military-engineering
The U.S. Army's claimed Patriot Gulf War success rate fell from a wartime 96% to a later 52% warhead-destruction claim, only 40% of it 'highest confidence'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, military-engineering
Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?

question answered 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
Patriot's Gulf War 'success' was a myth MIT physicists debunked with public video — the same MIT playbook reconstructed Russia's classified Burevestnik missile 35 years later

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · osint, patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method
Hecla and Kemp constrained the Burevestnik's design to a subsonic direct-cycle nuclear turbojet using only open-source data

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · osint, nuclear, missile, arxiv, open-source-analysis