How do I verify the priority claims?
To verify one of Michael Darius Eastwood's priority claims, pick its row in the priority ledger, open the dated evidence it names, check what kind of date that evidence carries, then read the earlier work the row credits. The machine-readable register (priority.json), the Priority Index on OSF and the evidence record carry the same anchors.
Text reviewed 2026-10-31. Any earlier audio edition may differ; the dated text and linked records govern.
For the anchor of 8 December 2024, the evidence record gives the manuscript's SHA-256 (beginning f0d1f38f), its Message-ID and the line references in his own prose; its headers have been public on OSF since 15 October 2026, so its signatures can be checked. The book's date is checkable in any catalogue under ISBN 978-1806056200, and each paper's date under its own DOI in the programme record (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB).
Keep four questions apart: when something was recorded, who wrote it, whether it was new, and whether it is true. A private manuscript is not a public publication, and an email's filename proves nothing; its signature and its hash do the work. Read the credited earlier work on its own terms: a genuine predecessor need not share the vocabulary, and a later paper on a similar topic is not a fulfilled prediction. For an empirical result, follow its registration, code, data and analysis; for a mathematical one, its assumptions and proof. If you find an earlier document that defeats a row, the correction route is published, and the row will carry it.