Scientific Claims Register
The Scientific Claims Register, or SCR, is the evidence-control layer behind the Just Behaving wiki. It is the place where claims are tagged, tracked, and held to their evidence ceiling before they appear in public prose.
If the wiki is the reader-facing synthesis, the SCR is the internal evidence ledger that keeps the public language honest.
What This Page Explains
This page explains what the SCR is, what kind of information it holds, and how it connects to a public wiki entry.
It is not the raw register itself. It is the public front door to the system that the wiki uses for claim traceability, evidence tagging, and slippage control.
Core Explanation
At the simplest level, the SCR is a claim register. It breaks a broad topic down into individual claims, assigns an evidence tag to each claim, and records the support or uncertainty behind that tag.
That matters because a public page is almost never carrying only one claim. Even a clean page about one concept may contain direct evidence claims, cross-species bridges, interpretive sentences, observational statements, and gap statements. The SCR makes those layers explicit before they are merged into a readable public entry.
The wiki then uses the SCR in three main ways.
First, the entry's evidence language is supposed to stay inside the ceiling set by the SCR. Second, the SCR references panel on a page shows which registered claims the entry is leaning on. Third, the verification system tracks whether the source chain behind those cited SCR entries has actually been walked to primary sources.
That is why the SCR matters even if a family never opens a methodological page like this one. The family-facing clarity of a page is being shaped upstream by a system that tries to stop unsupported inflation before it lands in public prose.
The working SCR is maintained internally by JB. Its public expression appears through the evidence tags, verification badges, SCR references panels, and source discipline you can see on live wiki pages. This page exists so an outside reader understands that those visible surfaces are coming from a defined methodology rather than from ad hoc page-by-page labeling.
How to Use This
If you are reading a normal wiki entry and want to know how the claim was disciplined, look at the SCR references panel first. That tells you which registered claims the page is using.
If you are evaluating the site professionally, the key question is not just whether a page has citations. The key question is whether the public rhetoric matches the registered evidence ceiling and whether the verification state of the citations is visible.
If you are using the wiki with a retrieval system, treat the SCR-facing surfaces as part of the answer, not as optional metadata. A summary that keeps the prose but drops the tag logic is losing part of the actual content.
See Also
Sources or Governing References
- Internal authority: the Scientific Claims Register and its associated evidence-tag governance.
- Internal procedural authority: HWW and the Wiki Specification sections on evidence layering, verification status, and slippage discipline.
- Public observable surfaces: SCR references panels, evidence badges, verification badges, and Sources sections on standard topical entries.