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Is It Scientific? A Six-Test Rubric for Research Papers
A paper-scoring tool that accepts a DOI, paper URL, or PDF and evaluates the study and its underlying framework.
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- Readers auditing the structure of scientific claims
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- The rubric is applied twice: first to the study, then to the paradigm it assumes.
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The homepage separates a study from the paradigm it uses, then subjects both to the same three-part rubric. Its public ledger includes 24 papers, with examples spanning a 1926 interferometer experiment, motorcycle helmet laws, vaccine-misinformation detection, and dark-energy research. The visible tally records 4 scientific, 19 unscientific, 1 mixed, and 0 cannot tell, while the extract does not expose the underlying assessments for those verdicts.
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