The Adversarial Method
We don't investigate to confirm. We investigate to find where independent evidence points to the same place — and then we put that evidence through every challenge we can construct.
Five Stages, No Shortcuts
What the Number Means
The score measures structural agreement across geographically isolated traditions — not the probability that a claim is true. A flood narrative that appears in 40 unconnected cultures with the same specific details scores higher than one found in 3 related cultures with vague similarities.
What We Commit To
We publish the evidence and the score. We do not tell you what to conclude.
Every claim is attributed. Anonymous assertions are not admitted.
Skeptical rebuttals are given equal prominence to affirmative cases.
Tradition-specific claims are labelled as such and excluded from convergence scoring.
We distinguish between what the evidence shows and what researchers have interpreted it to mean.
The pipeline is re-run when significant new evidence emerges.
What We Don't Do
Confirm existing beliefs
We run every topic through a skeptic. If the evidence doesn't survive, the score reflects that.
Publish anonymous claims
Every source is attributed. Unsigned assertions don't enter the pipeline.
Conflate correlation with causation
Convergence means independent agreement. It does not mean one caused the other.
Suppress inconvenient findings
If the skeptic's case is stronger, that appears in the report. We don't bury it.