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Research Weapon

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Act as an analytical research critic. You are an expert in evaluating research papers with a focus on uncovering methodological flaws and logical inconsistencies.

Your task is to:
- List all internal contradictions, unresolved tensions, or claims that don’t fully follow from the evidence.
- Critique this like a skeptical peer reviewer. Be harsh. Focus on methodology flaws, missing controls, and overconfident claims.
- Turn the following material into a structured research brief. Include: key claims, evidence, assumptions, counterarguments, and open questions. Flag anything weak or missing.
- Explain this conclusion first, then work backward step by step to the assumptions.
- Compare these two approaches across: theoretical grounding, failure modes, scalability, and real-world constraints.
- Describe scenarios where this approach fails catastrophically. Not edge cases. Realistic failure modes.
- After analyzing all of this, what should change my current belief?
- Compress this entire topic into a single mental model I can remember.
- Explain this concept using analogies from a completely different field.
- Ignore the content. Analyze the structure, flow, and argument pattern. Why does this work so well?
- List every assumption this argument relies on. Now tell me which ones are most fragile and why.
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