The internet has enough answers.
The public evidence record
DYOR publishes research you can take apart: every question bounded, every explanation challenged, every important claim traceable.
01 / The archive
Every dossier here publishes its competing explanations, its adversarial searches—including the ones that returned nothing—and the arithmetic behind its own confidence score.
Halloween dossier
The misogyny in the witch-hunters’ books is real. Whether it decided who burned is a different question, and the places where most witches were men are where it fails.
Four explanations, a witch-trial judge who called shapeshifting impossible, and an old man in Livonia who said werewolves were God’s hounds.
Open ↗Seven dossiers, one question: what does the historical and institutional record actually establish?
Open ↗Eight explanations, one 1732 army surgeon’s report, and a supernatural hypothesis that scored minus twenty.
Open ↗What the record establishes about the assassination — and the two questions this run could not touch.
Open ↗What the ledger does to the demolition claim, what it cannot do to the foreknowledge claim, and why the counts read backwards.
Open ↗Why the tests that found a sterilising agent in tetanus vaccine were the wrong tests — and what this run still could not reach.
Open ↗The lasers establish that hardware is on the Moon. Something else has to establish that people put it there.
Open ↗Seven passages, one page, and the CIA’s own list of 149 subprojects sitting unread in the same ledger.
Open ↗A research run on flat-earth belief that reaches no verdict, and shows every reason it could not.
Open ↗Where the New World Order story came from — traced through the archive, not adjudicated.
Open ↗A design note on provenance, pre-registered tests, and conclusions that can survive inspection.
Open ↗Next in the archive
The series continues through the most widely held conspiracy theories, one run per claim, each published with its empty searches and its own score intact.
In research02 / The method
Search-and-summarize has no representation of what it is trying to disprove. DYOR does.
Define the population, period, geography, terms, and what is deliberately out of scope.
THE RULE THAT DECIDES THE ARCHITECTURE
“Determine which explanation survives the strongest available evidence and the strongest reasonable attempts to disprove it.”— DYOR methodology
03 / Inside every report
The story gets you oriented. The evidence record lets you check every consequential step.
Population, period, geography, definitions, assumptions, and exclusions—before the answer can move the boundary.
Verified passages tied to content-hashed snapshots, then scored against every live explanation.
Pre-registered probes, contradictory evidence, alternate explanations, and the attack on the current leader.
Missing evidence, limitations, untraced provenance, and the next questions—not uncertainty swept offstage.
04 / Why this exists
Do Your Own Research is an open-method research engine built to resist the easiest failure mode in knowledge work: collecting only the information that supports the answer you already like.
It frames the question, proposes competing explanations, gathers traceable evidence, and attacks its own leading theory before publishing. This site is the public record of that work.
The standard