Fire From the Sky · claim YDIH-C506 · Observation rung · Retractions and the state of the record
Both retracted 2025 PLOS ONE papers disclosed Comet Research Group funding, and their author lists included CRG co-founders and directors (Kennett, LeCompte, Moore, West), stated to have volunteered without salary.
source anchor
YDIH research report, 'Background and claims architecture' closing paragraphs (report pp. 5–6), summarizing the papers' own funding/competing-interest disclosures
Evidence
No evidence records attached yet — this claim is held on its source anchor alone: the ledger knows where the proposition is stated and has admitted no observation behind it. A source is not evidence.
an honest empty state
This claim is in the ledger but not in the current edition's featured set. Nothing here has been assessed — that absence is information, not an oversight.
Still missing: plain-language gloss, credibility assessment, diagnosticity assessment, strongest objection, what would change our mind. A claim gains them when an edition features it and the edition's adopted assessment supplies the full treatment — a decision the panel reviews, not a field anyone flips.