#Method

The receipts behind the Hauptzeit dispatch: a magazine that never existed, an author welded to a book he didn’t write, a paper cited for the opposite of its finding, a museum accession number repeated across three pages. Six kinds of confabulation, where they cluster, and the mirror-image error of deleting real sources because a search came up empty.

Two answer sheets from one model. One was told to answer in a balanced way. The other was just reprinted in a different order. Call which is which, then see how far each moved.

Observed response differences on a fixed-panel forced-choice instrument, with descriptive references, failure counts and explicit limits on inference.

This project names 107 method-markers. An independent framework names 71 techniques. Do they describe the same world? The comparison is arithmetic, it is public, and the answer is only partly what we hoped.

Pick any two names in the corpus. The median gap between them is five handshakes. Every hop is a documented relationship, and the ones nobody has sourced yet say so.

The capture detector, pointed at whatever you paste — and at the author’s own books. It publishes its own false positives and the markers it had to kill.

Guess before you look. 780 responses, 766 scored records, 364 A/B pairs, thirteen models — and every delta shown against the interval that decides whether it counts at all.

A doctrinal dichotomy behind the control grid — the management doctrine (keep a system in permanent supervised tension) versus the development doctrine (build capability and end the condition). Its foreign-policy genealogy, the finance principal behind it, and a live 2026 instance.