TRUESEEKERThe Claim Record

For educators

Real claims make the best lessons

Every case on the record is a ready-made media-literacy lesson: a real claim students have probably seen, traced to what the evidence actually says. All of it is free to use in class under CC BY 4.0.

The distortion curriculum

Eleven ways claims get bent, each with a plain explanation and real examples. Teach one a week, or use them as a checklist students apply to their own feeds.

ExaggerationSubgroup generalizationSpecies extrapolationOmitted qualifierCausal overreachMarketing as evidenceQuote manipulationDate or context mismatchVisual manipulationFabricationTemporal overreach

Classroom activities

Place the needle

Show a claim, hide the verdict, and have students place it on the scale and defend their reasoning before the reveal. Daily Calibration runs this automatically.

Name the trick

Give students a claim and the taxonomy, and have them identify the distortion. Spot the Distortion is the same exercise, one a day.

Walk the chain

Hand out a printable study sheet and have students trace the claim to its primary source, deciding at each hop whether the meaning held.

Printable study sheets

Each sheet leads with discussion prompts, then the verdict, evidence, and source chain on one page. Open one and print to PDF.

Mostly accurateJohn Ternus is listed as a co-inventor on an Apple patent application for flexible electro…open sheet →
Partially accurate but misleadingRegular aerobic exercise produces measurable structural changes in the human brain via thr…open sheet →
Mostly accurateWalking provides aerobic and cardiovascular benefits but does not produce the same muscula…open sheet →
Mostly accuratePotassium bromate, a flour treatment agent used in baking, produced kidney and thyroid tum…open sheet →
Mostly accurateIn a reported clinical case, a patient using a GLP-1 receptor agonist developed a gastric …open sheet →
Mostly accurateAutoimmune disease occurs at elevated rates among people diagnosed with POTS; comparable i…open sheet →

Every case has a sheet at /case/ID/sheet, and the whole archive is downloadable from the data page.

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