Use the full text of primary sources and relevant independent research. Build traceable links between sources, extracted facts, claims, counterclaims, and inferences. Distinguish missing evidence from evidence of absence, and correlation from causation. Develop specific, falsifiable hypotheses from the combined evidence. Check whether each hypothesis has already been established in existing literature. Where data are incomplete or inconsistent, identify what can and cannot be inferred, and propose a reproducible validation method. Do not treat a majority vote, logical plausibility, or agreement among AI personas as proof of factual correctness or novelty. Do not invent data or citations. If no novel finding can be substantiated, explicitly report that limitation.