Provenance

Whether the studies a piece of engine prose cites can actually be found; never a judgement of the idea, and never a block.

The standing rule is: verify provenance, never verify the idea, nothing is ever blocked. Two audits apply it: pillar provenance on scientific pillars, and the hypothesis audit on hypotheses. Both resolve each citation, mark the quantitative claims in the prose, and report what stands behind them. A hypothesis whose every citation evaporates keeps its mechanism intact and loses only the right to have its numbers quoted as knowledge. The same word is used elsewhere on the site for the source trail of a dossier or of a rated value; the Omega audits are the strict form.