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Evidence Policy
Evidence Policy
- Important claims must cite evidence IDs where evidence records exist.
- Distinguish primary evidence from summaries and commentary.
- Record counterexamples and conflicting evidence.
- Never convert an inference into an observation.
- Record uncertainty explicitly.
- Preserve source location, retrieval date, and provenance.
- Prefer original research, standards, official documentation, raw data, and direct records over derivative commentary.
- Do not discard evidence merely because it conflicts with the current theory.