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The Catalogue of Errors Ltd is using large language models to perform an audit of the existing literature. It is inspired by Socrates' original injunction to know what we do not know, as well as Karl Popper's definition of the scientific method as "the search for and the elimination of errors in the service of truth."

The reports produced by "Reviewer 2"—our automated assessment system—examine the existing literature for errors of research design, execution, and interpretation. They are produced by large language models, overseen by a human editor on behalf of The Catalogue of Errors Ltd. They represent the honest opinion of The Catalogue of Errors Ltd, although their contents should be verified by a qualified expert. Any errors in the reports can be left in the private comments, and they will be checked and corrected if necessary in a revised version.

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Barwick et al. (2026) "Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes" Liu et al. (2025) "On the Formation of GW231123 in Population III Star Clusters" Fabiano et al. (2023) "The Effect of Exercise on Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials" Henn et al. (2025) "Missionary Activity, Education, and Long-Run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa" Harari (2007) "The Concept of "Decisive Battles" in World History" Lepore (2015) "On Evidence: Proving Frye as a Matter of Law, Science, and History" Ren et al. (2025) "Equatorial Atlantic Mid-depth Warming Indicates Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Slowdown" Banerjee et al. (2024) "When Less Is More: Experimental Evidence on Information Delivery During India's Demonetisation" Pierce et al. (2025) "Prime Editing-Installed Suppressor tRNAs for Disease-Agnostic Genome Editing" Kyle and Mounk (2018) "The Populist Harm to Democracy: An Empirical Assessment" Huang et al. (2026) "Time-of-Day Immunochemotherapy in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized Phase 3 Trial" Fiddler et al. (2024) "Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline's Spectral Turn" Wilding et al. (2021) "Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity" Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) "The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa" Kim et al. (2025) "1-year Risks of Cancers Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination: A Large Population-based Cohort Study in South Korea" Jumper et al. (2021) "Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold" Attar et al. (2025) "Prevention of Acute Myocardial Infarction Induced Heart Failure by Intracoronary Infusion of Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Phase 3 Randomised Clinical Trial (PREVENT-TAHA8)" Francis and Newland (2020) "Corporate Profitability and Economic Policy During Argentina's Great Depression, 1929–1934" Francis (2015) "The Periphery's Terms of Trade in the Nineteenth Century: A Methodological Problem Revisited" Castillejos et al. (2021) "Nuclear Dimension of Simple $C^*$-algebras" Francis (2017) "Globalisation, the Terms of Trade, and Argentina's Expansion in the Long Nineteenth Century"